Mithridates

From Latin Mithridātēs, from Ancient Greek Μιθριδάτης (Mithridátēs), from Old Persian *Miθradātah.

Mithridates

1. (historical) a male given name popularized in Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid Persia
   1. (historical) Name of several kings in the Mithridatid dynasty of Pontus and the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia.

• mithridatism, mithridatize, mithridatization

• Mithra
• Mithridatic
• mithridate
  • mithridatic
  • mithridatically
• mithridatium
• mithridatum
• mithridaticon
• Mithridatid
• Mithradates
• Meredates
• Mihrdat
• Mithredath
• Mehrdad
• Milad
• Mithradatkirt

From Ancient Greek Μιθριδάτης (Mithridátēs), from Old Median *Miθra-dāta- (literally “given by Mithra”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.tʰriˈdaː.teːs/, [mɪt̪ʰrɪˈd̪äːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.triˈda.tes/, [mit̪riˈd̪äːt̪es]

Mithridātēs m sg (genitive Mithridātis); third declension

1. Mithridates

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Mithridatius, Mithridateus, mithridatium

• “Mithridates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mithridates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.