Μαρδόνιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹 (m-r-du-u-n-i-y /⁠Mr̥duniyaʰ⁠/).[1][2]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Μαρδόνιος • (Mardónios) m (genitive Μαρδονίου); second declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian Mardonius
    1. father of Darius the Great's companion Gobryas who helped him overthrow Gaumata
    2. son of Gobryas and of a daughter of Darius the Great and grandson of the previous Μαρδόνιος, husband of Artazostre and father of Artontes, and brother-in-law and cousin of Xerxes I
    3. a bodyguard of Xerxes I killed at the Battle of Artemisium by a brother of Themistocles

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Μαρδόνιος; τοῦ Μαρδονίου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Μαρδόνιος
ho Mardónios
Genitive τοῦ Μαρδονίου
toû Mardoníou
Dative τῷ Μαρδονίῳ
tôi Mardoníōi
Accusative τὸν Μαρδόνιον
tòn Mardónion
Vocative Μαρδόνιε
Mardónie
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Μαρδόνιος (Mardónios)
  • → Latin: Mardonius

References
  1. Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 169
  2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) “1.2.23. Mạrduniya- (M-r-du-u-n-i-y-): Mạrdu-n-iya-”, 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 19

Further reading
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Marduniya”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎ (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 195a
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
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