Helena
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Stay gentle Helena, heare my excuſe: / My loue, my life, my ſoule, faire Helena.
- The capital city of Montana, United States and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
- A city in Alabama.
- A city in Arkansas.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A village in Ohio.
- A census-designated place in Mississippi.
- A hamlet in New York.
- A ghost town in Texas.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Proper noun
Helena f
Etymology
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name from Latin
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Declension
Declension of Helena (hard feminine)
Related terms
- See Helén
Further reading
Etymology
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena f
- a female given name, a Latinate variant of Heleen (=Helen)
Related terms
Etymology
From Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Jelena.
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Related terms
Etymology
Ultimately, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen.
Proper noun
Helena f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Helena: Helenuson
- daughter of Helena: Helenudóttir
Declension
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Helena |
| Accusative | Helenu |
| Dative | Helenu |
| Genitive | Helenu |
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. Doublet of Elina, Helinä, Elena, and Jelena.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name
- 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 55:
- Se ei koskaan unohtanut Helenan nimipäivää, vaan päivitteli joka vuosi typerään tapaansa että Helena oli niitä nimiä jotka sukupolvesta toiseen säilyttivät asemansa. Aika oudosti sanottu Maggi-tädiltä. No, olihan noita Helenoita.
- She had never forgotten Helena's name day, but always bemoaned that Helena is one of thsoe names that endured from one generation to another. Weird coming from aunt Maggi. Well, yes, Helenas were indeed a thing.
- 1991, Orvokki Kangas, Marraslapsi, Karisto, →ISBN, page 17:
- Eeva kysyi Matiakselta, tuntuisiko tästä turhamaiselta tai herraskaiselta, jos lapsen kutsumanimeksi pantaisiin Helena. Hän kertoi myös kotikylän nimikkokukasta. Hänen rakkautensa kukkaan oli saanut alkunsa Helenan tarinasta.
—Aivan hyvä nimi, sanoi Matias, —sopisikohan siihen vielä Loviisa-äidin nimi?- Eeva asked Matias whether it would seem conceited or fanciful to give the child a name like Helena' and told of the flower the village was named after. Her love to the flower had begun from Helenas story.
—It's a pretty good name, Matias said, —could the mother's name Loviisa also fit with it?
- Eeva asked Matias whether it would seem conceited or fanciful to give the child a name like Helena' and told of the flower the village was named after. Her love to the flower had begun from Helenas story.
Declension
| Inflection of Helena (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Helena | Helenat | |
| genitive | Helenan | Helenoiden Helenoitten | |
| partitive | Helenaa | Helenoita | |
| illative | Helenaan | Helenoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Helena | Helenat | |
| accusative | nom. | Helena | Helenat |
| gen. | Helenan | ||
| genitive | Helenan | Helenoiden Helenoitten Helenain rare | |
| partitive | Helenaa | Helenoita | |
| inessive | Helenassa | Helenoissa | |
| elative | Helenasta | Helenoista | |
| illative | Helenaan | Helenoihin | |
| adessive | Helenalla | Helenoilla | |
| ablative | Helenalta | Helenoilta | |
| allative | Helenalle | Helenoille | |
| essive | Helenana | Helenoina | |
| translative | Helenaksi | Helenoiksi | |
| abessive | Helenatta | Helenoitta | |
| instructive | — | Helenoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Statistics
- Helena is the 53rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 12,343 female individuals (and as a middle name to 108,667 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name from English
Related terms
References
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 185
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Helena occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women.
Proper noun
Helena f (proper noun, genitive singular Helenu)
- a female given name
Declension
| indefinite singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Helena |
| accusative | Helenu |
| dative | Helenu |
| genitive | Helenu |
Declension of Helena (sg-only feminine)
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhe.le.na/, [ˈhɛɫ̪ɛnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.le.na/, [ˈɛːlenä]
Proper noun
Helena f (genitive Helenae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: Elena
- Old French: Elene, Elaine
- → English: Elaine
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: Elena
- Sardinian: Elene
From Italian and Spanish Elena
- → English: Elena
- → Czech: Elena
- → Danish: Elena
- → Finnish: Elena
- → German: Elena
- → Latvian: Elēna, Elena
- → Norwegian: Elena
- → Swedish: Elena
Medieval borrowings
- → Danish: Elin
- → English: Ellen
- → Hawaiian: ʻElena
- → Faroese: Elin
- → Finnish: Elina, Eliina
- → Hungarian: Ilona
- → Irish: Léan
- → Latvian: Elīna
- → Lithuanian: Elena
- → Norwegian: Elin
- → Swedish: Elin, Elina
- → Welsh: Elen
Modern borrowings
- → Alemannic German: Helene
- → Basque: Helena
- → Breton: Elena
- → Catalan: Helena
- → Czech: Helena
- → Danish: Helena, Helene
- → Dutch: Helena, Heleen
- → English: Helena
- → English: Helen
- → Estonian: Helena, Helina
- → Faroese: Helena
- → Finnish: Helena
- → French: Hélène
- → German: Helena, Helene
- → Greek: Ελενα (Elena)
- → Hungarian: Heléna, Helené
- → Karelian: Heta
- → Latvian: Helēna
- → Lithuanian: Helenė
- → Northern Sami: Helená, Heleainná
- → Norwegian: Helena, Helene
- → Polish: Helena
- → Portuguese: Helena
- → Romanian: Elena
- → Spanish: Helena
- → Slovak: Helena, Elena
- → Slovene: Helena
- → Swedish: Helena, Helene
- → Yiddish: העלענע (Helene)
References
“Helena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology
Proper noun
Helena
- a female given name
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Helena.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena f (diminutive Helenka or Hela)
- (countable) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Helen
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (goddess worshipped in Laconia and Rhodes)
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War)
- (uncountable, astronomy) Helene (moon of Saturn)
Declension
Declension of Helena
Further reading
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: He‧le‧na
Proper noun
Helena f (plural Helenas)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen
Derived terms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Helena f (genitive singular Heleny, nominative plural Heleny, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension
Declension of Helena
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Helena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Helena c (genitive Helenas)
- a female given name
Related terms
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 82 717 females with the given name Helena living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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