Δαρεῖος

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-u-š /⁠Dārayauš⁠/), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /⁠Dārayavaʰuš⁠/).^[1]

Δᾱρεῖος • (Dāreîos) m (genitive Δᾱρείου); second declension

a male given name from Old Persian, equivalent to English Darius
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.1:
  Δαρείου καὶ Παρυσάτιδος γίγνονται παῖδες δύο, πρεσβύτερος μὲν Ἀρταξέρξης, νεώτερος δὲ Κῦρος.
  Dareíou kaì Parusátidos gígnontai paîdes dúo, presbúteros mèn Artaxérxēs, neṓteros dè Kûros.
  Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them: the older was Artaxerxes, the younger Cyrus.

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Δᾱρεῖος ho Dāreîos
Genitive	τοῦ Δᾱρείου toû Dāreíou
Dative	τῷ Δᾱρείῳ tôi Dāreíōi
Accusative	τὸν Δᾱρεῖον tòn Dāreîon
Vocative	Δᾱρεῖε Dāreîe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: Δαρείος (Dareíos)
Latin: Dārīus
- → English: Darius
- → Italian: Dario
- → Portuguese: Dario
- → Spanish: Darío

^ 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 15

“Δαρεῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Δαρεῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Δαρεῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Δαρεῖος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008