Galatea.
Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
Meaning & usage
Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.
Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.
A moon of Neptune.
74 Galatea, a main belt asteroid.
A settlement in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, named after HMS Galatea.
Where this word comes from
From Latin Galatēa, from Ancient Greek Γαλάτεια (Galáteia).
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