Perse
//pɜːs// adj, name, noun, verb
adj, name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour. countable, uncountable
- 2 A cloth of this colour. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 Obsolete form of pierce. alt-of, obsolete
Adjective
- 1 Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
Proper Noun
- 1 An Oceanid, (one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans' Oceanus and Tethys), and the wife of the sun god, Helios, by whom she is the mother of Aeetes, Perses, Pasiphae, and Circe. One of her many sisters is Amphitrite, (the wife of Poseidon). Perse is also closely identified with Hecate. Greek
- 2 A rare surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Περση (Persē, literally “Persian woman”).
Etymology 3
A variant of Piers.
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