Perse

• Persa
• Perseis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Περση (Persē, literally “Persian woman”).

Perse

1. (Greek mythology) 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.

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A variant of Piers.

Perse

1. A rare surname transferred from the given name.

• peers, Reeps, spere, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, Serpe, prees

From Latin, itself from Old Persian.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁs/

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Perse f

1. Persia

Perse m or f by sense (plural Perses)

1. Persian person

• persan
• Persan
• persaniser
• perse
• persique

• pères, peser, serpe

Perse m pl

1. the Persians
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Þǣr wæs Persa X M ofslæġen ġehorsedra, ⁊ eahtatiġ M fēþena,⁊ eahtatiġ M ġefangenra.

     There, 10,000 Persian cavalry were slain, and 80,000 infanty, and 80,000 were captured.

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Perse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.