satrapy – English noun declension

English noun forms of satrapy

Noun: satrapy
Singularsatrapy
Pluralsatrapys; satrapies

Sample Sentences

  • Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces. [1864, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford, John Henry and James Parker, page 413:]
  • 1951, W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1,
  • The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.
  • A satrapy′s borders were generally the same as those of the previously independent kingdom, with the satrap stationed in the old capital.[…]The Great King expected two things from the satrapies: a regular supply of taxes (called "tribute" because it underlined the satrapy′s subordination to the king) and units for the Persian army when needed. [2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, University of Toronto Press, page 30:]
  • To put flesh on this concept, Joe McDonagh took himself off to the British Library to learn about Russia and its former Soviet satrapies. [2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 3, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).