LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun

Rhēa

Meaning

  1. an old Italian name.

Rhēa, ae, f.,
I. an old Italian name. Thus, Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor and mother of Romulus and Remus, Liv. 1, 3; Flor. 1, 1, 1; Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 174 (cf. Verg. A. 1, 276).—Hence comes the name of the fabled priestess Rhea in Verg. A. 7, 659.
Rhĕa, ae, f., = Ῥέα,
I. another name for Cybele, Ov. F. 4, 201: Rhea, quae Latiis Ops, Aus. Idyll. 12 de Deis, 2.

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

Biography & mythologyRheaRhea. Ῥεία, Ῥείη, (or Ῥέη). The name as well as the nature of this divinity is one of the most difficult points in ancient mythology. Some consider Ῥέ…

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What does Rhēa mean in Latin?
Rhēa, a proper noun, means “an old Italian name.”.