Hermes

Meanings

Proper Noun

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

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• Mercury

Opposite words

• Apollo

Origin

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