- σατράπης
- σατράπης, -ουGrammatical information: m.Meaning: "satrap", governor of the Persian king (since X.).Derivatives: σατραπ-ικός `belonging to the satrap' (Arist. etc.), f. -ίς (Philostr.), -εύω `to be a satrap, to rule as a satrap' (X. etc.) with -εία, Ion. -ηΐη f. `the office, the province of a satrap, satrapy' (since Hdt.); -εῖα n. pl. `the palace of a satrap' (Hld.).Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Iran.Etymology: From OIran. *xšaʮra-pā- `protecting the empire' (OP xšaça-pāvan-), from xšaʮra- (s. on κτάομαι) and pāiti (s. on ποιμήν). The not rare, often attested forms in inscriptions ξατρ-, ἐξα(ι)τρ-, ἐξαιθρ- (also σαδρ-) represent partly the OP xš- and the internal dental more exactly (s. Eilers-Mayrhofer Sprache 6, 120 n. 59 [p. 121], Brandenstein Sprachgesch. und Wortbed. 60), but are also folketymolog. conditioned: ἐξατρ- after ἐξ-; cf. Schwyzer 206 a. 329. The αι-diphthong is by Kretschmer Sprache 2, 70 with Lehmann-Haupt P. -W. s. Satrap col. 84 hardly convincingly derived from an unattested OIran. mixed form. -- Cf. also Skt. kṣatrapa- a. o., s. Schmitt ZDMG 117, 131.Page in Frisk: 2,680-681
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.