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Anthea

/ˈænθiə/proper noun

A woman's name of Greek origin.

The Greek roots

ἄνθος
ánthos
flower, bloom

Literally: flowery one

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The story of the word

Ἄνθεια, the flowery one, was a cult title of Hera at Argos, where she was worshipped with spring blossom. English poets took it as a woman's name, most durably Robert Herrick, whose Hesperides of 1648 addresses several poems to Anthea. Anthology hides the same flower: a gathering of blooms, meaning poems picked from many hands.

How it travelled
Ancient Greek → English
First recorded
17th century

Same family

anthologyantherchrysanthemumanthozoan

In a sentence

Anthea signed the card with a small drawing of a poppy, which she said was the point of her name.

Built on the same root

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