δαρεικός

See also: Δαρεικός

Ancient Greek

From Old Persian *darikah, by folk etymology shaped to mean Δαρεῖος (Dareîos, “King Darius”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix).^[1]

δᾱρεικός • (dāreikós) m (genitive δᾱρεικοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ δᾱρεικός; τοῦ δᾱρεικοῦ (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Rüdiger Schmitt (1984), “Perser und Persisches in der Attischen Komödie”, in Orientalia J. Duchesne-Guillemin emerito oblata (in German), pages 459–472

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