a speaking like Datis, speaking broken Greek
a speaking like Datis (the Median commander at Marathon), i.e. speaking broken Greek, Hdn. Philet. p.443, Suid. s.v. Δᾶτις.
The corpus record
Δᾱτισμός
*datismos · ὁ
a speaking like Datis
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.