Βᾶτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Bātah.[1]

Proper noun

Βᾶτις • (Bâtis) m (genitive Βᾶτιδος); third declension

  1. a male given name, Batis, from Old Persian, a Persian military commander who resisted Alexander the Great

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Βᾶτῐς; τοῦ Βᾱ́τῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βᾶτῐς
ho Bâtĭs
Genitive τοῦ Βᾱ́τῐδος
toû Bā́tĭdos
Dative τῷ Βᾱ́τῐδῐ
tōî Bā́tĭdĭ
Accusative τὸν Βᾱ́τῐδᾰ
tòn Bā́tĭdă
Vocative Βᾶτῐς
Bâtĭs
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-δς (*-ds).

Descendants

  • Greek: Βᾶτις (Vátis)
  • → Latin: Batis

References

  1. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.331. *Bāta-”, 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 147

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