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Merope

/ˈmɛɹəpi/ · name

Meaning

  1. The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
  2. A subregion of Thrace in modern Northern Greece and southern Bulgaria, in the 14th-century Balkans.
  3. A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia.
  4. The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
  5. A female given name.

Etymology / origin

From Ancient Greek Μερόπη (Merópē).

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