Hermes

Meaning

Name

1. (Greek) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
2. The Egyptian Thoth, identified with the Greek Hermes.
3. The planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.

Noun

A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.

Synonyms

Mercury

Olympian

Translations

Hermès

Ερμής

Hermes

Hermes

Hermes

Hermes

Ermes

Hermes

هيرميز

Hermes

Hermes

Mercurius

Transbordador Hermes

Merkür

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɝmiːz/

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).