adj
Meaning 1
Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
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Standard Lemma guide
perse
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɜːs/
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General-American: /pɝs/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)s
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homophone: purse
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CMU ARPABET: P ER1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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Synonyms: Perseis
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name
Meaning 3
A rare surname transferred from the given name.
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noun
Meaning 4
A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A cloth of this colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
Obsolete form of pierce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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History
Etymology
From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach.
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πέρση (Pérsē), literally "destroyer", from the verb πέρθω (pérthō, “to destroy”). Compare Perses.
A variant of Piers.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: Պերսե — one of the Oceanids
- Finnish: Perse — one of the Oceanids
- Finnish: Perseis — one of the Oceanids
- French: Persé — one of the Oceanids
- Latin: Persa — one of the Oceanids