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Πέρσης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πέρσης Πέρσου

Structure: Περς (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Persian

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ Λευῖται ἐν ἡμέραισ Ἐλιασίβ, Ἰωαδὰ καὶ Ἰωὰ καὶ Ἰωανὰν καὶ Ἰδούα, γεγραμμένοι ἄρχοντεσ τῶν πατριῶν, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖσ ἐν βασιλείᾳ Δαρείου τοῦ Πέρσου. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 12:18)
  • καὶ Δανιὴλ κατηύθυνεν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ Δαρείου καὶ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ Κύρου τοῦ Πέρσου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:28)
  • καὶ τὸ τοῦ Πέρσου καὶ τὸ τοῦ Λίβυοσ ἀπόφθεγμα εὖ ἂν ἔχοι. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 37:1)
  • "καὶ τυχὼν ἧκεν εἰσ Κρότωνα, βουλομένου τε αὐτόθι καταμένειν, ἐπιλαβομένου τινὸσ τῶν Περσῶν καὶ λέγοντοσ ὅτι βασιλέωσ εἰή δοῦλοσ, ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀφείλαντο οἱ Κροτωνιᾶται, ἐκδύσαντεσ δὲ τὴν στολὴν τοῦ Πέρσου ἐνέδυσαν τὸν ὑπηρέτην τοῦ πρυτανεύοντοσ, ἐξ οὗ δὴ Περσικὴν ἔχων στολὴν περιέρχεται ταῖσ ἑβδόμαισ τοὺσ βωμοὺσ μετὰ τοῦ πρυτάνεωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:14)
  • "τῆσ οὖν παρασκευῆσ γενομένησ λαμπρᾶσ ὁ Αἰγύπτιοσ κατεγέλα ὡσ εὐτελῶσ τοῦ Πέρσου διαιτωμένου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 332)

Synonyms

  1. a Persian

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