Perse en · PROPN · etymology 1
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πέρση (Pérsē), literally "destroyer", from the verb πέρθω (pérthō, “to destroy”). Compare Perses.
Meanings
- (Greek) 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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Translations (5)
la Persa (one of the Oceanids) · fi Perseis (one of the Oceanids) · hy Պերսե (one of the Oceanids) · fi Perse (one of the Oceanids) · fr Persé (one of the Oceanids)