Helen Aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A Latinate form of Helen, borrowed from Latin Helena.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛlənə/
• IPA: (esp. Southern 米国発音) /hɛˈliːnə/

固有名詞

Helena

1. 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.

   • 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency‎:

     The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. The capital city of Montana, and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
   2. A city in Jefferson County and Shelby County, Alabama.
   3. A city in Helena-West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas.
   4. A ghost town in Trinity County, California.
   5. A former city in Georgia, now part of McRae-Helena.
   6. An unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
   7. A township in Antrim County, Michigan.
   8. An unincorporated community in Sand Beach Township, Huron County, Michigan.
   9. An unincorporated community in Turin Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
   10. A township in Scott County, Minnesota.
   11. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
   12. An unincorporated community in Andrew County, Missouri.
   13. A hamlet in the town of Brasher, St. Lawrence County, New York.
   14. A village in Sandusky Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.
   15. A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
   16. A census-designated place in Newberry County, South Carolina.
   17. A ghost town in Karnes County, Texas.
   18. An unincorporated community in the town of Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin.
3. A village in the Demerara-Mahaica region, Guyana.

派生語

アナグラム

• Lehane, anhele

語源

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈhɛ.ɫɛ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛː.le.na]

固有名詞

Helena f (genitive Helenae); first declension

1. Helen

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: Ileana
    • → Italian: Ileana
    • → Spanish: Ileana
• Italian: Elena
• Old French: Elene, Elaine
  • → English: Elaine
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: Elena, Helena
• 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
  • → Czech: Ilona
  • → Estonian: Ilona
  • → Finnish: Ilona
  • → German: Ilona
  • → Latvian: Ilona
  • → Lithuanian: Ilona
  • → Polish: Ilona
  • → Russian: Илона (Ilona)
  • → Ukrainian: Ілона (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
  • → Armenian: Էլեն (Ēlen)
  • → English: Helen
  • → Swedish: 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)

参照

“Helena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press