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By Brynn McKeon · Jul 2026

ah-REH-thoo-sah

Arethusa

OriginGreek
Meaning"quick water"
GenderGirl

About Arethusa

Variation of Aretha

Arethusa in pop culture

  • Arethusa

    daughter of the king in Beaumont and Fletcher's play Philaster (1611)

  • Arethusa

    Laura and Kitty ("Beauty; Sentiment and Comedy"), Harold Skimpole's daughters in Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

  • Arethusa by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    quoted by Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) as her favourite poem in Roman Holiday (1953)

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