Ὀτάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian Utāna (literally “having a good offspring”)[1][2], from *hu- (“good”) + *tā̆na- (“offspring”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Οτᾰ́νης • (Otánēs) m (genitive Οτᾰ́νου); third declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian: Otanes, the name of various Persian individuals

Inflection
First declension of ὁ Οτᾰ́νης; τοῦ Οτᾰ́νου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Οτᾰ́νης
ho Otánēs
Genitive τοῦ Οτᾰ́νου
toû Otánou
Dative τῷ Οτᾰ́νῃ
tôi Otánēi
Accusative τὸν Οτᾰ́νην
tòn Otánēn
Vocative Οτᾰ́νη
Otánē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Latin: Otanēs

References
  1. Rüdiger Schmitt, "OTANES" in Encyclopædia Iranica, January 1, 2000
  2. 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 20

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