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Definition: Artemis |
ArtemisNoun1. (Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Artemis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be safe", "a butcher". |
Date "Artemis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ARTEMIS | English | Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology Artemis ("fashion") is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In Roman mythology, she was known as Diana. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume.
She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and paradoxically childbirth (she was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess mostly in cities), since she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin. Early in her development, she was identified with Hecate, the primal, pre-Olympian feral goddess. She later became more identified with and eventually supplanted Selene as the moon goddess to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of Helios as the sun god. Artemis also assimilated Caryatis (Carya).
Her priestesses were addressed with the title Melissa.
Artemis was not worshipped heavily in much of mainland Greece. In Asia Minor, however, she was a principal deity. In Rome, she was heavily venerated at Mount Tifata near Capua and in holy forests (such as Aricia, Latium) Her high priest lived in Aricia; his position was passed to the person who was able to kill him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
Festivals in honor of Artemis include Brauronia, held in Brauron and the festival of Artemis Orthia in Sparta.
Young girls were initiated into the cult of Artemis at puberty. However, when they decided to marry, they were asked to lay all the accoutrements of virginity (toys, dolls, locks of their hair) on an altar to Artemis.
Diana was worshipped in a temple on the Aventine Hill where mainly lower-class citizens and slaves worshipped her. Slaves could ask for and receive asylum in her temples.
She was worshipped at a festival on August 13.
Her name may come from diviana ("the shining one").
In art, she was typically portrayed with a crescent moon above her head and her bow and arrows, created by Hephaestus and the Cyclopes. These arrows, in contrast to her role as goddess of childbirth, were said to be the cause of women dying in childbirth. As another contradiction, she was a goddess of healing that brought leprosy, rabies and gout.
In Ephesus, the Temple of Artemis became one the Seven Wonders of the World. In Ephesus, and elsewhere in Asia Minor, she was worshipped primarily as a earth and fertility goddess, akin to Cybele, unlike in mainland Greece. Statues in Greece depict her with her bow and arrow; the statues in Asia Minor show her with nodes on her breast believed to be either multiple nipples, breasts or sacrificial bull testes.
As Agrotora, she was especially associated as the patron goddess of hunters. Artemis was often associated with the local Aeginian goddess, Aphaea. As Potnia Theron, she was the patron of wild animals. Homer used this title. As Kourotrophos, she was the nurse of youths. As Locheia, she was the goddess of childbirth and midwives. She was sometimes known as Cynthia, from her birthplace on Mount Cynthus on Delos. She sometimes used the name Phoebe, the feminine form of her brother, Apollo's, Phoebus.
When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Hera's husband, Zeus, was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on terra firma, or the mainland, or any island at sea. She found the floating island of Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island and gave birth there. The island was surrounded by swans. As a gesture of gratitude, Delos was secured with four pillars. The island later became sacred to Apollo. Alternatively, Hera kidnapped Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor. The other gods forced Hera to let her go. Either way, Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo. Another version states that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
At three years old, Artemis asked her father, Zeus, to grant her perpetual virginity. He did so. All of her companions remained virgins, and she guarded her chastity very closely.
She was once bathing nude in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. When she saw him, Artemis changed him to a stag and, disgusted at his stares, set his own hounds to kill him. He was torn apart. Alternatively, Actaeon boasted that he was a better hunter than she and Artemis turned him into a stag and he was eaten by his hounds.
After leaving Eos, Orion became a follower of Artemis. She eventually killed him, though the reasons why change in differing version.
In some versions of the story of Adonis, Artemis or Ares (her lover in this story) sent a wild boar to kill Adonis. This version is suspect because it implies that Artemis had sex with Ares and by virtually all accounts, she remained chaste throughout time.
Artemis killed any of her companions who lost their virginity, such as Maera and Callisto.
One of Artemis' companions, Callisto, lost her virginity to Zeus, who had come disguised as Artemis. Enraged, Artemis changed her into a bear. Callisto's son, Arcas, nearly killed his mother while hunting, but Zeus or Artemis stopped him and placed them both in the sky as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a (sacred) deer in a (sacred) grove and boasted he was a better hunter. On his way to Troy to participate in the Trojan War, Agamemnon's ships were suddenly motionless as Artemis stopped the wind. An oracle named Calchis told Agamemnon that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice Iphigenia, his daughter. According to some versions, he did so, but others claims that he sacrificed a deer in her place and Iphigenia was taken to Crimea to prepare others for sacrifice to Artemis.
A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, with the last begging for his life and Artemis her daughters. Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions a number of the Niobids were spared (Chloris, usually). Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo after swearing revenge. A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Siplyon in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept, or committed suicide. Her tears formed the river Achelous. Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.
Zeus pursued Taygete, one of the Pleiades, who prayed to Artemis. The goddess turned Taygete into a doe but Zeus raped her when she was unconscious. She thus conceived Lacedaemon, the mythical founder of Sparta.
Otus and Ephialtes were a pair of brothers and giants. At one point, they wanted to storm Mt. Olympus. They managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a jar for thirteen months. He was only released when Artemis offered to sleep with Otus. This made Ephialtes envious and the pair fought. Artemis changed herself into a doe and jumped between them. The Aloadae, not wanting her to get away, threw their spears and killed each other.
The Ceryneian Hind was sacred to Artemis. She had found a herd of five one day and captured four to pull her chariot, but the fifth escaped to Mt. Cerynaea, on the border of Achaea and Arcadia. When Heracles kidnapped it, Artemis forgave him.
After the death of their brother, Meleager, Artemis turned his grieving sisters, the Meleagrids into guinea pigs.
Artemis killed Chione for her pride and vanity.
Artemis saved the infant Atalanta from dying of exposure after her father abandoned her. She sent a female bear to suckle the baby, who was then raised by hunters.
Among other adventures, Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, which Artemis had sent to destroy Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices.
In Wiccan tradition, Diana was the mother of Aradia by Lucifer.Worship
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Artemis."
Synonym: ArtemisSynonym: Cynthia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Artemis |
| English words defined with "Artemis": Apollo ♦ Diana ♦ Latona, Leto ♦ Orion ♦ Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo ♦ sage brush, sagebrush. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Artemis": Artemis microkernel ♦ Gods ♦ Pi-beseth. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Artemis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Artemis, Phoebe), Serbo-Croatian (artemis), Turkish (Artemis). |
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| "Artemis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Artemis" is used about 308 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.03% | 305 | 16,573 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.97% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 308 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Artemis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be safe", "a butcher". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "Artemis". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Artemidoros | Male | Ancient Greek | A gift of Artemis |
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Artemis." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Artemisios | Male | Ancient Greek | Artemis |
| Artemis | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
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| Luxembourg | Artemis Fine Arts |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Artemis": Artemis microkernel ♦ Artemis pontica ♦ Artemis spinescens. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Artemis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Артемида, Богиня На Правосъдието. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Artemis (Phoebe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Artemo (Phoebe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Αρτέμη (Diana). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Aremisz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artemisay Ártemis. (various references) Артемида (Cynthia). (various references) artemis. (various references) Artemis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Artemis": artemisia, artemisias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: imarets, maestri, misrate, smartie. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aimers, airest, armets, armies, imaret, master, maters, matres, merits, misate, miseat, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, remits, samite, satire, smiter, stream, striae, tamers, terais, timers. | |
-2 letters: aimer, airts, amies, amirs, arise, armet, aster, astir, emirs, emits, irate, items, mairs, maist, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, merit, metis, mires, miser, miter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airtimes, amirates, amortise, asterism, atomiser, barmiest, ceramist, emeritas, emirates, lamister, magister, marliest, marlites, marmites, matrices, matrixes, migrates, minarets, misalter, misrated, misrates, mistaker, mistrace, mistreat, muriates, primates, ragtimes, raiments, rammiest, readmits, scimetar, seriatim, smarties, steamier, sterigma, teratism, vitamers, wartimes. | |
+2 letters: admitters, airstream, ambiverts, amitroles, amortised, amortises, amortizes, animaters, antimeres, antiserum, armistice, artemisia, asterisms, atomisers, atomizers, ceramists, creamiest, diameters, dramatise, dreamiest, emigrants, emigrates, estimator, immatures, impacters, imparters, lamisters, magisters, mannerist, marbliest, marcasite, marinates, marshiest, martinets, martyries, masteries, mastering, materials, materiels, mediators, metatarsi, midstream, misalters, miscreant, miscreate, mishanter, mislearnt, misparted, misrelate, mistakers, mistraced, mistraces, mistreats, osmeteria, preadmits, rebaptism, remittals, rolamites, ruminates, sawtimber, scimetars, septarium, smarmiest, smeariest, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, sterigmas, streamier, streaming, teratisms, terminals, tidemarks, timecards, timesaver, tramlines, tribesman, tyramines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 74 65 6D 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. - . -- .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r t e m i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0074 0065 006D 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35848671797585 |
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