Περσίδος (Persidos)

Περσίδος is an Ancient Greek form of Περσίς, meaning “Persis — Persian land; Persian woman”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of πέρσις, “sacking, sack”.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138.1: βασιλεὺς δέ, ὡς λέγεται, ἐθαύμασέ τε αὐτοῦ τὴν διάνοιαν καὶ ἐκέλευε ποιεῖν οὕτως. ὁ δ’ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ὃν ἐπέσχε τῆς τε Περσίδος γλώσσης ὅσα ἐδύνατο κατενόησε καὶ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων τῆς χώρας·

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.1·3: … υάλωτοι, καὶ ὅσοι μετὰ τὴν τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ἅλωσιν ὑπελείφθησαν. καὶ ὁ μὲν Σαλμανασὰρ τὸ τῶν Χουθαίων ἔθνος ἐκ Πέρσιδος μετῴκισεν εἰς Σαμάρειαν, ὁ δὲ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ἔρημον ἀφῆκε τὴν Ἰουδαίαν, καὶ ἔμεινεν οὕτως ἐπὶ ἐνιαυτοὺς ἑβδομ …

All forms of Περσίς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.