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Translingual
Proper noun
Atossa
- Synonym of Vicia (“legume genus”)
- Synonym of Nossa (“moth genus”)
- Synonym of Grammoechus (“beetle genus”)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄτοσσα (Átossa), itself from Old Persian *Utauθa (literally “well trickling, well granting”) or Old Iranian *Hutauθa- (literally “bestowing very richly”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Atossa f sg (genitive Atossae); first declension
- The daughter of Cyrus and wife of Darius
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Atossa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray