Helene

From French Hélène and from German Helene. Doublet of Helen, Helena, and Elaine.

• IPA^(key): /hɛlˈiːn/

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Helene (countable and uncountable, plural Helenes)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Penguin, published 1973, →ISBN, page 18:

     She lost only one battle - the pronunciation of her name. The people in Bottom refused to say Helene. They called her Helen Wright and left it at that.

2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Cognate with the English Helen.

Helene

1. a female given name
2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

• Elin, Ellen, Helen, Helena, Lena, Lene

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 26 376 females with the given name Helene have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

From French Hélène and from German Helene.

Helene (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

• Heleene, Elina, Elle, Ellen, Hele, Helen, Heleri, Heli, Helina, Helle, Ilona

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• IPA^(key): /heˈleːnə/

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• Homophone: Hellene (one pronunciation)

Helene f (proper noun, genitive Helenes or (with an article) Helene)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

• Elena, Ellen, Helena, Ilona, Lena, Lene

• IPA^(key): /heˈle.ne/, [hɛˈlɛ.nɛ]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn).

Helene

1. Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)
2. Greek person

Helene

1. (stative) Greek

Borrowed from English Helen and Helene.

Helene

1. a female given name from English

• Helena
• ʻElena

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 185
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records The name does not occur as a mononym in 19th century marriage records. Early examples:

  Helene Piko, married in 1892, Molokai

  Helene Wainee, married in 1900, Honolulu

• Helena

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le.neː/, [ˈhɛɫ̪ɛneː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.le.ne/, [ˈɛːlene]

Helenē f (genitive Helenēs); first declension

1. Helen

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

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

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Cognate with the English Helen.

Helene

1. a female given name

• Eli, Elin, Eline, Ellen, Helen, Helena, Lena, Lene

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 10 708 females with the given name Helene living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with frequency peaks in the 1880s and the 1990s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

From French Hélène. First recorded as a Swedish name in 1810. Variant of Helena (“Helen”).

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Helene c (genitive Helenes)

1. a female given name

• Spelled with various accents as Hélène, Heléne, Helène, etc.