Gender Feminine
Usage Greek Mythology
Scripts Κυμοπόλεια(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsCymopolea (Latin), Cimopolea (Italian)
Meaning & History
Means "wave-walker" from Greek κῦμα (kuma) "wave, billow" and πολέω (poleo) "to go about, to range over". Kymopoleia, Greek goddess of heavy seas and storms, was a daughter of the sea god Poseidon and Amphitrite and she was the wife of Briareus, one of the three Hundred-Handlers. Her only known mention occurs in Hesiod's Theogony.