/pɜːs/, /pɝs/
OriginFrom Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach.
- countable, uncountableA very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
- countable, uncountableA cloth of this colour.
- Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
- GreekAn 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.
- A rare surname transferred from the given name.
Formsperses(plural) · Persa(alternative) · Perseis(alternative)