Arethusa

From Ancient Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Aréthousa, literally “The Waterer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌæɹɪˈθjuːzə/

Arethusa

1. (Greek mythology) A nereid nymph, who became a fountain.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides nymphs.
3. (astronomy) 95 Arethusa, a main belt asteroid.

• haustrae

From Ancient Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Aréthousa).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.rɛˈtʰuː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.reˈt̪uː.s̬a]

Arethūsa f (genitive Arethūsae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) A nymph of the Greek mythology
2. A fountain at Syracusae
3. A fountain in Euboea
4. A fountain in Ithaca
5. a city in Syria situated between Epiphania and Emesa
6. a lake in Armenia, through which the Tigris flows
7. a town in Macedonia, Greece

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Arethūsaeus
• Arethūsius
• Arethūsis

• Translingual: Arethusa

• “Arethusa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arethusa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arethusa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly