Everyday LifeGreek → English
Anthea
/ˈænθiə/proper noun
A woman's name of Greek origin.
The Greek roots
ἄνθος
ánthos
flower, bloom
Literally: “flowery one”
Follow a root:ἄνθος5 words
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.