Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Δᾱ́ρειος ‎(Dā́reios)
• Δᾱρειαῖος ‎(Dāreiaîos)
• Δαριήκης ‎(Dariḗkēs)

Proper noun

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

1. Darius
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.1

     Δαρείου καὶ Παρυσάτιδος γίγνονται παῖδες δύο, πρεσβύτερος μὲν Ἀρταξέρξης, νεώτερος δὲ Κῦρος.

     Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them: the older was Artaxerxes, the younger Cyrus.

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Δαρείος ‎(Dareíos)
• Latin: Dārīus, Dārēus

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008