This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Althea (disambiguation).
Althea
Pronunciation
stress on the first syllable (British) or second syllable (American)
Gender
Female
Language(s)
Greek
Origin
Meaning
healer, wholesome
Other names
See also
Thea, 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 ἀλθοςalthos ("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]
^Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed. "Milton's Lycidas". Paradise Lost, Books I and II. Boston: Ginn & Co.
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