Atossa

Translingual

Proper noun

Atossa

1. Synonym of Vicia (“legume genus”)
2. Synonym of Nossa (“moth genus”)
3. 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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈtos.sa/, [äˈt̪ɔs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈtos.sa/, [äˈt̪ɔsːä]

Proper noun

Atossa f sg (genitive Atossae); first declension

1. The daughter of Cyrus and wife of Darius

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Atossa
Genitive	Atossae
Dative	Atossae
Accusative	Atossam
Ablative	Atossā
Vocative	Atossa

References

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