English

Alternative forms

• Hekate

Proper noun

Hecate

1. The powerful goddess, in Greek mythology, of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.
2. (astronomy) Short for 100 Hekate, a main belt asteroid.

Coordinate terms

• (Greco-Roman moon goddess): Trivia, Artemis/Diana, Selene/Luna, Theia, Phoebe, Pandia, the Menae
• (goddesses of the dead): Melinoe/Mania, Macaria, Persephone/Proserpina

Translations

Anagrams

• teache
• thecae

References

1. ↑ Charles Anthon, A Classical Dictionary (Harper & Brothers, 1869)
2. ↑ P. E. Wheelwright, Metaphor and Reality (1975, ISBN 0-253-20122-5)
3. ↑ Jenny Strauss Clay, in Hesiod's Cosmos (Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-82392-7), lists a number of researchers who associate Hecate's name and "will", e.g. Walcot (1958), Neitzel (1975), and Derossi (1975); she identifies "the name and function of Hecate as the one 'by whose will' prayers are accomplished and fulfilled". This interpretation also appears in Liddell and Scott's A Greek English Lexicon.
4. ↑ “Hecate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.