Apollo name - Meaning of Apollo
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- Gender
- Masculine
- Lucky Number
- 8
- Usage
- Greek Mythology (Latinized)
- Pronounced
- ə-PAW-lo (English)
- Apollo Meaning
- From Greek Απολλων (Apollon) , which is of unknown meaning, though perhaps related to Indo-European * apelo "strength". Another theory states that Apollo can be equated with Appaliunas, an Anatolian god whose name possibly means "father lion" or "father light". The Greeks later associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb απολλυμι (apollymi) meaning "to destroy". In Greek mythology Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin of Artemis. He was the god of prophecy, medicine, music, art, law, beauty, and wisdom. Later he also became the god of the sun and light. Apollo is an ancient Greek name whose origins are not clearly known. One version puts it as a derivative of the Doric “apella”, which means "assembly". The more commonly held meaning though is that of being "manly and virile". This comes from Apollo, the Greek god of day and night, of music, medicine as well as of manly sports.
Apollo Related Names
Variant: Apollon
Apollo Celebrities
Apollo M. O. Smith - rocket scientist, Apollo Korzeniowski - poet, playwright,
