Ἄρτεμις

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Uncertain.[1] Attested from an early date as Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵 (a-te-mi-to) and Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀴𐀖𐀳 (a-ti-mi-te);[2] this and its alternation of e and i led Beekes and Georgios Babiniotis to suggest the name is from a Pre-Greek substrate.[3][4] A connection to Anatolian names has also been suggested;[5][6] Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus.[7] Ancient Greek writers, by way of folk etymology, linked the name (found in Doric as Artamis) to ἄρταμος (ártamos, butcher) or ἀρτεμής (artemḗs, safe, unharmed; pure; maiden).[8] Others compare Artemis to the Cretan Britomartis, with whom she was syncretized.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ἄρτεμις (Ártemisf (genitive Ἀρτέμιδος); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Artemis, one of the Greek goddesses.
    Synonyms: Ταυροπόλος (Tauropólos), Ταυρώ (Taurṓ)

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Artemis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ John Chadwick, Lydia Baumbach, "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary", Glotta, 41:3/4 (1963:157-271), page 176f; C. Souvinous, "A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos, 9, 1970:42–47; T. Christidis, "Further remarks on A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos, 11:125–28.
  3. ^ Robert S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, page 142.
  4. ^ Babiniotis, Georgios (2005) “Άρτεμις”, in Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, Athens: Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας, page 286
  5. ^ Campanile, Ann. Scuola Pisa, 28:305; Restelli, Aevum, 37:307, 312.
  6. ^ Edwin L. Brown, "In Search of Anatolian Apollo", Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, Hesperia Supplements, 33 (2004:243–257). pages 251ff.
  7. ^ Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift fur Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (Studies in Indo-European language and culture), W. de Gruyter, 1994, Etyma Graeca, pages 213–214; Houwink ten Cate, The Luwian Population Groups of Lycia and Cilicia Aspera during the Hellenistic Period (Leiden) 1961:166, noted in this context by Brown 2004:252.
  8. ^ See LSJ.

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