1. Δᾶρεικός · Dareikos — Chantraine
The corpus record
Δᾱρεικός
*dareikos
s«dnrique» pièce d’or perse, le mot est également adjectif, employé avec στατήρ
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Where it lives
- Anabasis 10 · 1.78/10k
- Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. Δᾶρεικός · Dareikos — Frisk
3. Δᾱρεικός · Dareikos — LSJ
a Persian gold coin (but Δ. ἀργύρειοι Plu. Cim. 10), prop. Adj. agreeing with στατήρ (in full, Th. 8.28, Hdt. 7.28), Ar. Ec. 602, X. An. 1.1.9, Herod. 7.122, etc.; so χρυσὸς χαρακτῆρα Δαρεικὸν ἔχων D.S. 17.66; χρυσὸς Δαρεικός Alciphr. 1.5:—written Δαρικός and Δαριχός, IG 5(1).1 (Sparta). (From Δαρεῖος, cf. Poll. 3.87, acc. to some not D. Nothus, Harp.; the connection with Bab. dariku (dub. sens.) is v. doubtful.)
In the wild
- Δαρεικῶν · Dareikōn Herodotus, Histories 7.28.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7261)
- Δαρεικὸν · Dareikon Thucydides, History 8.28.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5552)
- δαρεικούς · dareikous Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.9 (DIORISIS sentence 26)
- δαρεικοῦ · dareikou Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.21 (DIORISIS sentence 207)
- δαρεικούς · dareikous Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.3 (DIORISIS sentence 149)
- δαρεικοὺς · dareikous Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.18 (DIORISIS sentence 433)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Δᾱρεικός (scan pp. 266-267; entry #1829).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δᾱρεικός (scan p. 381; entry #1431). Root candidates: *dari-.