Artemisia

Gender Feminine
Usage Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts Ἀρτεμισία(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Feminine form of Artemisios. This was the name of the 4th-century BC builder of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. She built it in memory of her husband, the Carian prince Mausolus.

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Categories

architects, feminine forms, flora, Granblue Fantasy characters, history, Megami Tensei characters, nature, painters, plants, queens, queens regnant, theophoric names, women's history

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἀρτεμισία.
Entry updated October 6, 2024