Selene. The name Selena comes from it and the word for the study of the Moon's surface: Seleniology. Luna was the Roman God of the Moon.
The moon means Selene in Greek mythology. She is the goddess of the moon. Luna is her Roman goddess counterpart.
In Greek myth the Goddess not God who controlled the Moon was Artemis, she got the Moon due to his brother Apollo got the Sun.
Selene the goddess of the moon was born from two great parents and they were Theia the Titan, goddess of heavenly light and Hyperion the Titan god of light. She was born at a place called the Greek island of rhodes.
Selene.
Month is not a Greek word... it is of Germanic origin and relates to the word 'moon'.
from a variation of the Greek word meaning "moon".
It's the greek word for moon or moonlight.
Artemis is often mistakenly identified with the moon in Greek Myth. Honeymoon has the word "moon" within it.
Diemos was a Greek god, i believe the god of terror, fear, etc. The word itself is the Greek word for dread.
Selene. The name Selena comes from it and the word for the study of the Moon's surface: Seleniology. Luna was the Roman God of the Moon.
νουμηνία, ας, ἡ or noumenia. It is feminine.
Lunar comes from Luna (Moon in Latin)
Selene is actually a Greek word, not Latin. It means "moon."
The Greek word for "moon" is men (or mene if you want to make it feminine). The same word was used for a (lunar) month. The Greeks also called the moon Selene, the name of the Greek goddess of the moon.Luna was the equivalent Roman goddess, and that's used in words like "lunar". However, the proper term for mapping the Moon is "selenography", deriving from the Greek name. (Similarly, mapping Mars is "areography", from Ares.)
Selene is derived from the Greek word "selas," meaning light or brightness. Thus, Selene's name symbolizes her association with illuminating the night sky as the goddess of the moon.
The daughter of Aether and Hemera, whose name is also the Greek word for "sea," is Thalassa. In the case of moons, Thalassa is not associated with a specific moon in our solar system, but she is a personification of the sea in Greek mythology.