Althea

Althea
Pronunciationstress on the first syllable (British) or second syllable (American)
GenderFemale
Language(s)Greek
Origin
Meaninghealer, wholesome
Other names
See alsoThea, Tia

Althea (Old English: Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name Althaea (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ἀλθος althos ("healing").

Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem ("To Althea, from Prison") that John Milton later alluded to in his own poem "Lycidas".[1]

  1. ^ Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed. "Milton's Lycidas". Paradise Lost, Books I and II. Boston: Ginn & Co.