Μαζαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Mazdāyah.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Μᾰζαῖος • (Măzaîos) m (genitive Μᾰζαίου); second declension

  1. a male given name, Mazaeus, from Old Persian, a Persian nobleman and satrap of Babylon

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Μᾰζαῖος; τοῦ Μᾰζαίου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Μᾰζαῖος
ho Măzaîos
Genitive τοῦ Μᾰζαίου
toû Măzaíou
Dative τῷ Μᾰζαίῳ
tōî Măzaíōi
Accusative τὸν Μᾰζαῖον
tòn Măzaîon
Vocative Μᾰζαῖε
Măzaîe
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Latin: Mazaeus

Further reading

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*mazdāyā̆-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 164
  2. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 244
  3. ^ * Ernst Badian, "MAZAEUS" in Encyclopædia Iranica, April 21, 2015
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