Amalthea

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.
  • The third most distant moon of Jupiter.

Origin

  • From Ancient Greek Ἀμάλθεια.

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