δαρεικός

See also: Δαρεικός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Δᾱρεικός (Dāreikós), δᾱρῑκός (dārīkós)

Etymology

From Old Persian *darikah, by folk etymology shaped to mean Δαρεῖος (Dareîos, “King Darius”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /daː.reː.kós/ → /ða.riˈkos/ → /ða.riˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /daː.reː.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /da.riˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ða.riˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ða.riˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ða.riˈkos/

Noun

δᾱρεικός • (dāreikós) m (genitive δᾱρεικοῦ); second declension

1. daric (a gold coin from the Persian Empire)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ δᾱρεικός; τοῦ δᾱρεικοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δᾱρεικός ho dāreikós	τὼ δᾱρεικώ tṑ dāreikṓ	οἱ δᾱρεικοί hoi dāreikoí
Genitive	τοῦ δᾱρεικοῦ toû dāreikoû	τοῖν δᾱρεικοῖν toîn dāreikoîn	τῶν δᾱρεικῶν tôn dāreikôn
Dative	τῷ δᾱρεικῷ tōî dāreikōî	τοῖν δᾱρεικοῖν toîn dāreikoîn	τοῖς δᾱρεικοῖς toîs dāreikoîs
Accusative	τὸν δᾱρεικόν tòn dāreikón	τὼ δᾱρεικώ tṑ dāreikṓ	τοὺς δᾱρεικούς toùs dāreikoús
Vocative	δᾱρεικέ dāreiké	δᾱρεικώ dāreikṓ	δᾱρεικοί dāreikoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: darīcus
  • → English: daric
  • French: darique
• → German: Dareikos, Dareike
• → Danish: dareik

Further reading

• δαρεικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Δαρεικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• δαρεικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Δαρεικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Δαρεικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δαρεικός in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn