Artemis

See also: Artémis and Ártemis

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English

Artemis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹtəmɪs/

Proper noun

Artemis

1. (Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)
2. (rare) A female given name. The male variation is Artemios.
3. (astronomy) The main-belt asteroid 105 Artemis, discovered in 1868.

Synonyms

• (sister of Apollo): Agrotora, Aphaea, Cynthia, Diana, Kourotrophos, Locheia, Phoebe, Potnia Theron

Derived terms

• Artemidean
• Artemisian

Translations

Greek goddess

• Armenian: Արտեմիս (hy) (Artemis)
• Azerbaijani:

  Arabic: آرتمیدا‎

  Cyrillic: Артемида

  Roman: Artemida

• Catalan: Àrtemis (ca) f
• Esperanto: Artemiso
• Finnish: Artemis
• French: Artémis (fr) m
• Galician: Artemisa f, Ártemis f
• German: Artemis (de)
• Greek: Άρτεμη (el) f (Ártemi), Άρτεμις (el) f (Ártemis)

  Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις f (Ártemis)

• Irish: Artaimís f
• Italian: Artemide f
• Japanese: アルテミス (ja) (Arutemisu)
• Korean: 아르테미스 (Areutemiseu)
• Persian: آرتمیس‎ (fa) (ârtemis)
• Polish: Artemida (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ártemis (pt) f, Artemisa (pt) f, Artémis (pt) f
• Russian: Артеми́да (ru) f (Artemída)
• Spanish: Artemisa (es) f, Ártemis f
• Swahili: Artemi
• Turkish: Artemis (tr)

See also

• Artemis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Arthur Cotterell, Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Anagrams

• AIRMETs, Reitsma, Ritsema, Ter Sami, imarets, maestri, maister, maistre, mariets, masrite, mirates, misrate, smartie