Βᾶτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Bāta (“wine”).

Proper noun

Βᾶτις • (Bâtis) m (genitive Βᾶτιδος); third declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Batis, a Persian military commander who resisted Alexander the Great

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Βᾶτῐς; τοῦ Βᾱ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Βᾶτῐς ho Bâtis
Genitive	τοῦ Βᾱ́τῐδος toû Bā́tidos
Dative	τῷ Βᾱ́τῐδῐ tôi Bā́tidi
Accusative	τὸν Βᾱ́τῐδᾰ tòn Bā́tida
Vocative	Βᾶτῐς Bâtis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: Βᾶτις (Bâtis)
• → Latin: Batis

Further reading

• Βᾶτις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)