Δαρεικός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian *daryakah, by folk etymology shaped to mean Δαρεῖος (Dareîos, “King Darius”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /daː.reː.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /da.riˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ða.riˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ða.riˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ða.riˈkos/
Noun
Δᾱρεικός • (Dāreikós) m (genitive Δᾱρεικοῦ); second declension
- daric (a gold coin from the Persian Empire)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Δᾱρεικός ho Dāreikós |
τὼ Δᾱρεικώ tṑ Dāreikṓ |
οἱ Δᾱρεικοί hoi Dāreikoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Δᾱρεικοῦ toû Dāreikoû |
τοῖν Δᾱρεικοῖν toîn Dāreikoîn |
τῶν Δᾱρεικῶν tôn Dāreikôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Δᾱρεικῷ tōî Dāreikōî |
τοῖν Δᾱρεικοῖν toîn Dāreikoîn |
τοῖς Δᾱρεικοῖς toîs Dāreikoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Δᾱρεικόν tòn Dāreikón |
τὼ Δᾱρεικώ tṑ Dāreikṓ |
τοὺς Δᾱρεικούς toùs Dāreikoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Δᾱρεικέ Dāreiké |
Δᾱρεικώ Dāreikṓ |
Δᾱρεικοί Dāreikoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “Δαρεικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Δαρεικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ 1984, Rüdiger Schmitt, “Perser und Persisches in der Attischen Komödie”, in Orientalia J. Duchesne-Guillemin emerito oblata, pages 459–472: