Artemis

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Artemis

/ˈɑː.tə.mɪs/ UK
/ˈɑɹ.tə.mɪs/ Canada, US
/ˈɒɹ.tə.mɪs/ Canada, US, also
/ˈɐː.tə.mɪs/ Australia
/ˈɐː.tə.məs/ New Zealand
/ˈaɾ.tə.mɪs/ Scotland
/ˈaɾ.tʌ.mɪs/ Scotland
/ˈɑː(ɾ).ʈe.mɪs/ India

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)təmɪs

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́ρτεμις (Ắrtemis). Further etymology is uncertain.

proper noun

Greek The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. The perception of it added something that was little short of reverence to the deep affection for him of a woman who, herself, had more of Artemis than of Aphrodite in her constitution.
Similar: Agrotora, Aphaea, Cynthia, Diana, Kourotrophos, Locheia, Phoebe, Potnia Theron
rare A female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Artemios.
rare A male given name from Ancient Greek. Mr. HISS. And is Mr. Artemis Denaxas an official of that company? Mr. ALLARD. I believe he is. Mr. HISS. I offer as "Exhibit No. 307" a letter of August 22, 1933, by Mr. Artemis Denaxas to Mr. Goulding, […]
The main-belt asteroid 105 Artemis, discovered in 1868.
A United States space program, and the associated vehicles, used for human travel to the Moon in the 2020s. (See Artemis program on Wikipedia.) Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cynthia, diana, apollo, leto, artio, athena, orion, athene, phoebe, artemision, arethusa, themis, astraea, atalanta, eleutheria, aristaeus

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name Greek goddess

Español	Artemisa, Ártemis
한국어	아르테미스 Areutemiseu
日本語	アルテミス Arutemisu
中文	阿耳忒彌斯 /阿耳忒弥斯 Ā'ěrtèmísī
हिन्दी	आर्टेमिस ārṭemis
Kiswahili	Artemi
Português	Ártemis, Artemisa, Artémis
Français	Artémis, Artémide
Deutsch	Artemis
Italiano	Artemide
Ελληνικά	Άρτεμη Ártemi, Άρτεμις Ártemis
Română	Artemis
Русский	Артеми́да Artemída
العربية	أَرْتِمِيس ʔartimīs

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"Artemis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/artemis.

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@misc{artemis_2026,
  title = {Artemis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/artemis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}