Andromache

Gender Feminine
Scripts Pron. /an.dro.má.khɛː/ (Classical Greek) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Derived from the Greek elements aner) meaning "man" (genitive μάχη (mache) meaning "battle" [1] [2] . In Greek legend she was the wife of the Trojan hero Hector. After the fall of Troy Neoptolemus killed her son Astyanax and took her as a concubine.

Related Names

Rootsaner + mache
Other Languages & CulturesAndromachi (Greek)

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classic mature formal upper class strong refined strange complex serious

Images

Andromache Mourning Over Body of Hector by Jacques-Louis David (1783)Andromache Mourning Over Body of Hector by Jacques-Louis David (1783)
  1. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry a)nh/r, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Da%29nh%2Fr.
  2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry ma/xh, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dma%2Fxh.

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