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]- “Helena”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “Helena”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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)
Related terms
[edit]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) | |||
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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 Helenain rare | |
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. |
Related terms
[edit]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
Related terms
[edit]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]Declension of Helena | ||
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f-w1 | singular | |
indefinite | ||
nominative | Helena | |
accusative | Helenu | |
dative | Helenu | |
genitive | Helenu |
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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 |
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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]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]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]Audio: (file)
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.
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- en:Cities in Montana, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:State capitals of the United States
- en:County seats of Montana, USA
- en:Places in Montana, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Alabama, USA
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Cities in Arkansas, USA
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
- en:Towns in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Villages in Ohio, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- en:Census-designated places in Mississippi, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in Mississippi, USA
- en:Villages in New York, USA
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Ghost towns in Texas, USA
- en:Places in Texas, USA
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