Etymology

Eleuthera

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Today it means: A long thin island in the Bahamas, east of New Providence. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἐλεύθερος“free”
  2. English todayEleuthera

Coined by Puritan settlers in the 1640s (as Eleutheria), based on Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, “free”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἐλεύθερος all →

eleutherozoicEleutherus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.