Amestris

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄμηστρις (Ámēstris), itself from Old Persian *Amāstrī. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈmeːs.trɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈmɛs.tris] === Proper noun === Amēstris f sg (genitive Amēstris); third declension The wife of Xerxes and the mother of Artaxerxes ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only. === References === “Amestris”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray