artemis

name

1. (Greek)The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo.

   “The perception of it added something that was little short of reverence to the deep affection for him of a woman who, herself, had more of Artemis than of Aphrodite in her constitution.”

   “Ah! here is the duchess, looking like Artemis in a tailor-made gown.”

   “Or shall we run with Artemis / Or yield the breast to Aphrodite? / Both are mighty; / Both give bliss;”

   “And the Elders know, as if they had seen with their own eyes, that monstrous sacrifice of his own daughter Iphigenia at Aulis, whereby Agamemnon had released the fleet, storm-stayed by the will of Artemis, and served his own ambition.”

2. (rare)A female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Artemios.
3. (rare)A male given name from Ancient Greek.

   “Mr. HISS. And is Mr. Artemis Denaxas an official of that company? Mr. ALLARD. I believe he is. Mr. HISS. I offer as "Exhibit No. 307" a letter of August 22, 1933, by Mr. Artemis Denaxas to Mr. Goulding, […]”

   “Artemis's father rested one hand on the rolling ladder, lifting his weight from the artificial limb. His expression was strange, and one that Artemis could not recall ever seeing. He realized his father was more than anxious. Artemis Fowl Senior was afraid. […] Now Artemis himself grew worried.”

   “She must give her full attention to the man at her side, Mr. Artemis Boutwell, as she had promised her mother. The young Mr. Artemis Boutwell, as everyone referred to him, was tall like Griffin—no, Mr. Parks. She must remember to refer to him ...”

4. The main-belt asteroid 105 Artemis, discovered in 1868.
5. A United States space program, and the associated vehicles, used for human travel to the Moon in the 2020s. (See Artemis program on Wikipedia.)

   “Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.”