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HELLE
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Finnish
Finnish form of Greek Helénē, probably HELLEENA means "torch."
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Swedish
Swedish : ornamental name formed with häll ‘rock’, ‘stone’ + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.English : variant of Ellen 1 (with inorganic initial H-).English : variant of Hillian.Irish (west Cork) : variant of Heelan.
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Norwegian and Swedish
Norwegian and Swedish : from Old Norse hella ‘flat stone’, ‘flagstone’, ‘flat mountain’ or hellir ‘cave’. As a Nowegian name this is generally a habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named. As a Swedish name, it is generally ornamental.English : variant spelling of Hell 1.German : topographic name from Middle High German helle ‘hell’ (modern German Hölle), used (often in field names) in a topographic sense to denote a hollow or a wild, precipitous place.
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Finnish
 Short form of Finnish Helleena, probably HELLE means "torch." Compare with other forms of Helle.
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American, Australian, British, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek
Bright One; Sun Ray; Shining; The Ancestor of the Hellenes; A Son of Deucalion and Pyrrha
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Arthurian
, king of Fairyland and lover of Morgan le Fay.
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Arthurian Legend
French lover of Morgan le Fay.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Hellmann (see Heller), reflecting varieties of Yiddish in which there is no h.German (Elmann) : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Adelman, composed of the elements adal ‘noble (family)’ + man ‘man’.English : occupational name for a seller of oil, from Middle English ele ‘oil’ + man ‘man’.
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Greek
(Έλλη) Greek name HELLE means "of the Hellespont." In mythology, this is the name of the twin sister of Phrixos. The twins were children of Athamas and Nephelê. Compare with other forms of Helle.
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English
Variant spelling of English Helen, probably HELLEN means "torch."
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English
English : variant of Hill, from southeastern Middle English hell ‘hill’, a dialect form characteristic of Kent and Sussex.English : from a personal name, Helle, which may have been a variant of Elie (a Middle English form of Elias), or perhaps a short form of a personal name formed with Hild- as the first element (see Hilliard for example), or perhaps from the female personal name Helen.German : nickname from Middle High German hell ‘bright’, ‘shining’.German : variant of Helle 3.
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English
English : topographic name for a hill dweller (see Heller).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Hellerman.Dutch : variant of Helman.German : see Hellmann.
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Greek
(Ελλεν) Greek name HELLEN means "Greek." In mythology, this is the name of the patriarch of the Hellenes, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, father of Aeolos, Xuthus, Doros, and Ionas, each of whom founded a tribe of Greece and all became known as the Hellenes.Â
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Greek Latin
Father of Phrixus and Helle.
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German
German : nickname from the small medieval coin known as the häller or heller because it was first minted (in 1208) at the Swabian town of (Schwäbisch) Hall. Compare Hall.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Schwäbisch Hall.German : topographic name for someone living by a field named as ‘hell’ (see Helle 3).English : topographic name for someone living on a hill, from southeastern Middle English hell + the habitational suffix -er.Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hild ‘strife’ + hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a person with fair hair or a light complexion, from an inflected form, used before a male personal name, of German hell ‘light’, ‘bright’, Yiddish hel.
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British, English
Holy Well
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Danish
, holy.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname derived from German drei ‘three’, Middle High German drī(e), with the addition of the suffix -er. This was the name of a medieval coin worth three hellers (see Heller), and it is possible that the German surname may have been derived from this word. More probably, the nickname is derived from some other connection with the number three, too anecdotal to be even guessed at now.North German and Scandinavian : occupational name for a turner of wood or bone, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German dreien, dregen ‘to turn’. See also Dressler.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish dreyer ‘turner’, or a nickname from a homonym meaning ‘swindler, cheat’.English : variant spelling of Dryer.
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Greek
Daughter of Athamas.
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Australian, Greek
Light
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One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.
v. i.
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
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A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.
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The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.
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A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.
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A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
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One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).
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The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
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See Ivorytype.
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Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks.
v. t.
To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word.
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Of or pertaining to the Hellespont.
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According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect.
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The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
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Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore.
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A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
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Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.
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Pertaining to the Hellenists.
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Alt. of Hellenistical
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A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.