Perseid

• Perseide, Perseïde (archaic)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/

Borrowed from Latin Perseidēs m, from Ancient Greek Περσείδης m (Perseídēs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) +‎ -ίδης (-ídēs). By surface analysis, Perseus +‎ -id.

Perseid (plural Perseids or Perseidae)

1. (Greek mythology) A descendant of Perseus.
   • 1735, Thomas Blackwell, An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer, page 20:

     Thus the Family of Pelops got the poſſeſſion of two Kingdoms, and became ſuperior in Wealth and Power to the Perſeids their Rivals.

   • 1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric age, page 365:

     […] the Perseids, who reigned at Mycenæ […]

   • 2019, Olga Zekiou, The Poetics of the Homeric Citadel, page 66:

     […] Heracles, who traces his lineage back to the two great families in the Argolid, the Perseids and the Pelopids […]

Perseid (not comparable)

1. (Greek mythology) Of or relating to the Perseids.
   • 1787, John Gillies, The History of Ancient Greece, page 95:

     The deſcendants and partiſans of the great Hercules, the moſt illuſtrious hero of the Perſeid line, were diveſted of their poſſeſſions, and driven into baniſhment.

   • 1814, William Mitford, The History of Greece‎^[1], volume 8, London, page 4:

     […] the Perseid line […]

   • 1869, George Grote, A History of Greece, page 90:

     We here reach the commencement of the Perseid dynasty of Mykênæ.

Borrowed from Latin Persēis f, from Ancient Greek Περσηΐς f (Persēḯs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) +‎ -ις (-is). By surface analysis, Perseus +‎ -id.

Perseid

1. An epithet of Alcmene (grand-daughter of Perseus).
   • 1880, The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 725:

     The Perseid Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon of Tiryns, was Hercules's mother, Zeus his father […] .

2. A poem by Trinacrius mentioned by Ovid in Epistulae ex Ponto (4.16.25).
3. An episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses devoted to Perseus.

Perseid (plural Perseids or Perseides)

1. (astronomy) Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Perseus.

Borrowed from Latin Persēis f, from Ancient Greek Περσηΐς f (Persēḯs), from Πέρσης (Pérsēs) +‎ -ις (-is). By surface analysis, Perses +‎ -id.

Perseid

1. An epithet of Hecate (daughter of Perses).
   • 1828, Nimrod, page 425:

     It was not confined to the Male Fury, but belonged also to Medea, the Perseid Hecate or Fury of Colchis, […]

     (Hecate is here mistaken for Medea.)

   • 2023, Ovid's Metamorphoses: A New Translation, page 182:

     Then to the shrine of Perseid Hecate,² / Concealed by forest shades, she boldly went, / Her passions on the wane. But when she there / Saw Aeson's son, her embers flamed anew!

     (The note erroneously defines Hecate as “daughter of the nymph Perse”.)

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