Amestris

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄμηστρις (Ámēstris), itself from Old Persian [Term?] (/⁠*Amāstrī-⁠/, literally “strong woman”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmeːs.tris/, [äˈmeːs̠t̪rɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmes.tris/, [äˈmɛst̪ris]

Proper noun

Amēstris f sg (genitive Amēstris); third declension

1. The wife of Xerxes and the mother of Artaxerxes

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Amēstris
genitive	Amēstris
dative	Amēstrī
accusative	Amēstrem
ablative	Amēstre
vocative	Amēstris

References

• “Amestris”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray