helenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlən/
• 韻: -ɛlən

固有名詞

Helen (複数形 Helens)

1. (Greek mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
     When with your blood you daily paint her thus.

2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1928 Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

     "Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought —"
     Miss Viner closed her eyes.
     "I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."

   • 1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6:

     ...in 1910 she brought Helen into the world, the little female, or "mujercita", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.

   • 2003, Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 189:

     Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.

派生語

• Helensburgh
• Helensville
• St Helens, St. Helens
• Theddlethorpe St Helen

関連する語

• Elaine, Elena, Ellen, Ellie, Helena, Helene, Ilona, Lena, Nell, Nellie

派生した語

• → Danish: Helen
• → Estonian: Helen
• → Hawaiian: Helena
• → Norwegian: Helen
• → Swedish: Helen

名詞

Helen (複数形 Helens)

1. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.

アナグラム

• Ehlen