# Ἄρτεμις
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* Ἄρταμις (Ártamis) — Doric

### Etymology

Uncertain. Attested from an early date as Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵 (a-te-mi-to) and Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀴𐀖𐀳 (a-ti-mi-te); this and its alternation of e and i led Beekes and Georgios Babiniotis to suggest the name is from a Pre-Greek substrate. A connection to Anatolian names has also been suggested; Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus. Ancient Greek writers, by way of folk etymology, linked the name (found in Doric as Artamis) to ἄρταμος (ártamos, “butcher”) or ἀρτεμής (artemḗs, “safe, unharmed; pure; maiden”). Others compare Artemis to the Cretan Britomartis, with whom she was syncretized.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ár.te.mis/ → /ˈar.te.mis/ → /ˈar.te.mis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ár.te.mis/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈar.te.mis/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈar.te.mis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈar.te.mis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈar.te.mis/

### Proper noun

Ἄρτεμις • (Ártemis) f (genitive Ἀρτέμιδος); third declension
* (Greek mythology) Artemis, one of the Greek goddesses.
    Synonyms: Ταυροπόλος (Tauropólos), Ταυρώ (Taurṓ)

#### Derived terms

* Ἀρταμίτιον (Artamítion)
* Ἀρτεμιδόβλητος (Artemidóblētos)
* ἀρτεμισίᾱ (artemisíā)
* Ἀρτεμισίᾱ (Artemisíā)
* Ἀρτεμισιασταί (Artemisiastaí)
* Ἀρτεμίσιον (Artemísion)
* Ἀρτεμίσιος (Artemísios)
* Ἀρτεμισιών (Artemisiṓn)

#### Descendants

* Greek: Άρτεμις (Ártemis), Αρτέμιδα (Artémida), Άρτεμη (Ártemi)
* → Coptic: ⲁⲣⲧⲉⲙⲓⲥ (artemis)
* → Latin: Artemis
* → Old Armenian: Արտեմիս (Artemis)
* → Russian: Артеми́да (Artemída)

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “Artemis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ John Chadwick, Lydia Baumbach, "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary", Glotta, 41:3/4 (1963:157-271), page 176f; C. Souvinous, "A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos, 9, 1970:42–47; T. Christidis, "Further remarks on A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos, 11:125–28.
* ↑ Robert S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, page 142.
* ↑ Babiniotis, Georgios (2005) “Άρτεμις”, in Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, Athens: Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας, page 286
* ↑ Campanile, Ann. Scuola Pisa, 28:305; Restelli, Aevum, 37:307, 312.
* ↑ Edwin L. Brown, "In Search of Anatolian Apollo", Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, Hesperia Supplements, 33 (2004:243–257). pages 251ff.
* ↑ Indogermanica et Caucasica: Festschrift fur Karl Horst Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag (Studies in Indo-European language and culture), W. de Gruyter, 1994, Etyma Graeca, pages 213–214; Houwink ten Cate, The Luwian Population Groups of Lycia and Cilicia Aspera during the Hellenistic Period (Leiden) 1961:166, noted in this context by Brown 2004:252.
* ↑ See LSJ.

### Further reading

* “Ἄρτεμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Ἄρτεμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* Ἄρτεμις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “Ἄρτεμις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G735 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002
* Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
* http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Artemis.html