Sandrocottus
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German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin Sandrocottus.
Proper noun[edit]
Sandrocottus m
- Chandragupta Maurya, the first Mauryan emperor reigning 321—297 BCE.
Declension[edit]
Nominative, dative and accusative Sandrocottus, genitive Sandrocottus' (without the definite article) or Sandrocottus (with the definite article).
Older declension:
Like in Latin, with nominative Sandrocottus, genitive Sandrocotti, dative and ablative Sandrocotto, accusative Sandrocottum, vocative Sandrocotte.
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σανδρόκοττος (Sandrókottos) (also Σανδρόκυπτος (Sandrókuptos), Σανδράκοττος (Sandrákottos)), from Sanskrit चन्द्रगुप्त (candragupta).
Proper noun[edit]
Sandrocottus m sg (genitive Sandrocottī); second declension
- Chandragupta Maurya, the first Mauryan emperor reigning 321—297 BCE.
- c. 350 CE, Marcus Iunianus Iustinus, Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompeii Trogi XV.IV.13:
- Auctor libertatis Sandrocottus fuerat, sed titulum libertatis post victoriam in servitutem verterat; siquidem occupato regno populum, quem ab externa dominatione vindicaverat, ipse servitio premebat.
- The author of this liberation was Sandrocottus, who afterwards however, turned their semblance of liberty into slavery; for, making himself king, he oppressed the people whom he had delivered from a foreign power, with a cruel tyranny.[1]
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Sandrocottus |
Genitive | Sandrocottī |
Dative | Sandrocottō |
Accusative | Sandrocottum |
Ablative | Sandrocottō |
Vocative | Sandrocotte |
Descendants[edit]
- German: Sandrocottus, Sandrokottus
References[edit]
- ^ John Selby Watson, Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius, literally translated with notes and a general index, London, 1853, p. 142
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