Παρύσατις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian *Parušātiš, a variant of *Parušyātiš.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rý.saː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paˈry.sa.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paˈry.sa.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈry.sa.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈri.sa.tis/
Proper noun
Παρύσατις • (Parúsatis) f (genitive Παρυσάτιδος); third declension
- a female given name, Parysatis, from Old Persian
- wife of Hystaspes and mother of Darius the Great
- daughter of Artaxerxes I and Andia and wife of her step-brother Darius II and mother of Artaxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger
- youngest daughter of Artaxerxes II, whom Alexander the Great married after Roxane and at the same time as Stateira II
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Πᾰρῠ́σᾱτῐς hē Părŭ́sātĭs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Πᾰρῠσᾱ́τῐδος tês Părŭsā́tĭdos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Πᾰρῠσᾱ́τῐδῐ tēî Părŭsā́tĭdĭ | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Πᾰρῠσᾱ́τῐδᾰ tḕn Părŭsā́tĭdă | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Πᾰρῠ́σᾱτῐς Părŭ́sātĭs | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Παρύσατις (Parýsatis); Παρυσάτιδα (Parysátida)
- → Latin: Parysatis
References
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*parušyāti-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 182
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1240. *Parušyātiš: *Paru-šyāti-š”, in 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 267
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Παρύσατις. Παρυσάτις”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 244
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
- p. 291 in M. A. Dadamaev's A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire. Brill. 1989.