Helena
English edit
Etymology edit
A Latinate form of Helen, from Latin Helena.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Stay gentle Helena, heare my excuſe: / My loue, my life, my ſoule, faire Helena.
- The capital city of Montana, United States and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
- A city in Alabama.
- A city in Arkansas.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A village in Ohio.
- A census-designated place in Mississippi.
- A hamlet in New York.
- A ghost town in Texas.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English Helena, from Latin Helena.
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name from Latin
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Declension edit
Related terms edit
- See Helén
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
A Latinate variant of Danish Helene (“Helen”).
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f
- a female given name, a Latinate variant of Heleen (=Helen)
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Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Jelena.
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Related terms edit
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen.
Proper noun edit
Helena f
- a female given name
Usage notes edit
Matronymics
- son of Helena: Helenuson
- daughter of Helena: Helenudóttir
Declension edit
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Helena |
| Accusative | Helenu |
| Dative | Helenu |
| Genitive | Helenu |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. Doublet of Elina, Helinä, Elena, and Jelena.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name
- 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 55:
- Se ei koskaan unohtanut Helenan nimipäivää, vaan päivitteli joka vuosi typerään tapaansa että Helena oli niitä nimiä jotka sukupolvesta toiseen säilyttivät asemansa. Aika oudosti sanottu Maggi-tädiltä. No, olihan noita Helenoita.
- She had never forgotten Helena's name day, but always bemoaned that Helena is one of thsoe names that endured from one generation to another. Weird coming from aunt Maggi. Well, yes, Helenas were indeed a thing.
- 1991, Orvokki Kangas, Marraslapsi, Karisto, →ISBN, page 17:
- Eeva kysyi Matiakselta, tuntuisiko tästä turhamaiselta tai herraskaiselta, jos lapsen kutsumanimeksi pantaisiin Helena. Hän kertoi myös kotikylän nimikkokukasta. Hänen rakkautensa kukkaan oli saanut alkunsa Helenan tarinasta.
—Aivan hyvä nimi, sanoi Matias, —sopisikohan siihen vielä Loviisa-äidin nimi?- Eeva asked Matias whether it would seem conceited or fanciful to give the child a name like Helena' and told of the flower the village was named after. Her love to the flower had begun from Helenas story.
—It's a pretty good name, Matias said, —could the mother's name Loviisa also fit with it?
- Eeva asked Matias whether it would seem conceited or fanciful to give the child a name like Helena' and told of the flower the village was named after. Her love to the flower had begun from Helenas story.
Declension edit
| Inflection of Helena (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Helena | Helenat | ||
| genitive | Helenan | Helenoiden Helenoitten | ||
| partitive | Helenaa | Helenoita | ||
| illative | Helenaan | Helenoihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Helena | Helenat | ||
| accusative | nom. | Helena | Helenat | |
| gen. | Helenan | |||
| genitive | Helenan | Helenoiden Helenoitten Helenainrare | ||
| partitive | Helenaa | Helenoita | ||
| inessive | Helenassa | Helenoissa | ||
| elative | Helenasta | Helenoista | ||
| illative | Helenaan | Helenoihin | ||
| adessive | Helenalla | Helenoilla | ||
| ablative | Helenalta | Helenoilta | ||
| allative | Helenalle | Helenoille | ||
| essive | Helenana | Helenoina | ||
| translative | Helenaksi | Helenoiksi | ||
| abessive | Helenatta | Helenoitta | ||
| instructive | — | Helenoin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Statistics edit
- Helena is the 53rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 12,343 female individuals (and as a middle name to 108,667 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Etymology edit
Latinate variant of German Helene (“Helen”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name
Hawaiian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name from English
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References edit
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 185
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Helena occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women.
Icelandic edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f
- a female given name
Declension edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhe.le.na/, [ˈhɛɫ̪ɛnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.le.na/, [ˈɛːlenä]
Proper noun edit
Helena f (genitive Helenae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Helena | Helenae |
| Genitive | Helenae | Helenārum |
| Dative | Helenae | Helenīs |
| Accusative | Helenam | Helenās |
| Ablative | Helenā | Helenīs |
| Vocative | Helena | Helenae |
Descendants edit
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: Elena
- Old French: Elene, Elaine
- → English: Elaine
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: Elena
- Sardinian: Elene
From Italian and Spanish Elena
- → English: Elena
- → Czech: Elena
- → Danish: Elena
- → Finnish: Elena
- → German: Elena
- → Latvian: Elēna, Elena
- → Norwegian: Elena
- → Swedish: Elena
Medieval borrowings
- → Danish: Elin
- → English: Ellen
- → Hawaiian: ʻElena
- → Faroese: Elin
- → Finnish: Elina, Eliina
- → Hungarian: Ilona
- → Irish: Léan
- → Latvian: Elīna
- → Lithuanian: Elena
- → Norwegian: Elin
- → Swedish: Elin, Elina
- → Welsh: Elen
Modern borrowings
- → Alemannic German: Helene
- → Basque: Helena
- → Breton: Elena
- → Catalan: Helena
- → Czech: Helena
- → Danish: Helena, Helene
- → Dutch: Helena, Heleen
- → English: Helena
- → English: Helen
- → Estonian: Helena, Helina
- → Faroese: Helena
- → Finnish: Helena
- → French: Hélène
- → German: Helena, Helene
- → Greek: Ελενα (Elena)
- → Hungarian: Heléna, Helené
- → Karelian: Heta
- → Latvian: Helēna
- → Lithuanian: Helenė
- → Northern Sami: Helená, Heleainná
- → Norwegian: Helena, Helene
- → Polish: Helena
- → Portuguese: Helena
- → Romanian: Elena
- → Spanish: Helena
- → Slovak: Helena, Elena
- → Slovene: Helena
- → Swedish: Helena, Helene
- → Yiddish: העלענע (Helene)
References edit
“Helena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian edit
Etymology edit
Latinate variant of Norwegian Helene (“Helen”).
Proper noun edit
Helena
- a female given name
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin Helena.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f (diminutive Helenka or Hela)
- (countable) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Helen
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (goddess worshipped in Laconia and Rhodes)
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War)
- (uncountable, astronomy) Helene (moon of Saturn)
Declension edit
Declension of Helena
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: He‧le‧na
Proper noun edit
Helena f (plural Helenas)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen
Derived terms edit
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Helena f (genitive singular Heleny, nominative plural Heleny, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension edit
Declension of Helena
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Helena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.
Pronunciation edit
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Proper noun edit
Helena c (genitive Helenas)
- a female given name
Related terms edit
References edit
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 82 717 females with the given name Helena living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.