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Q&A Can I name a male character Artemis?

I don't know of Artemis in ancient greek being used as a male name, but, for what it's worth, in modern greek Άρτεμις is the female name (same name as the godess) but there exists a male version to...

posted 5y ago by sesquipedalias‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T07:25:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
I don't know of Artemis in ancient greek being used as a male name, but, for what it's worth, in modern greek Άρτεμις is the female name (same name as the godess) but there exists a male version too, which is Αρτέμης. Note the accents: in the female version, the stress is on the initial A, whereas in the male version it's the second vowel, the e, that is stressed\*. The different spelling of the last vowel is just historical spelling with no impact on pronunciation. (transliterating: Α-\>A, ρ-\>r, τ-\>t, ε-\>e, μ-\>m, ι-\>i, η-\>i, ς-\>s)

My impression is that, while the female version of the name is the more popular of the two, the male version isn't too rare, either.

\*Modern greek does not have short and long vowels--they are all short. But each word has one syllable that is stressed, i.e. louder than the others (of course, the cadence of sentences complicates how words sound in natural speech, but that's the basic theory anyway.)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-07-23T18:48:55Z (over 5 years ago)
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