hecate
英 ['hekəti]
美
- n. 赫卡特（司夜和冥界的女神）
英英释义
- 1. (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of fertility who later became associated with Persephone as goddess of the underworld and protector of witches
英文词源
- Hecate
- early 15c., Greek deity, daughter of Perseus and Asteria (said to be originally Thracian), later identified as an aspect of Artemis, fem. of hekatos "far-shooting." Associated since Shakespeare ("I Henry VI," III.ii.64) with witches and sorcery.