Meaning: A literary coinage from Aleksei Tolstoy's 1923 Russian sci-fi novel 'Aelita,' the name of a Martian princess. Its meaning is invented; routes uncertain, though it evokes the ethereal and otherworldly.Low
In 30 seconds: A Russian sci-fi name: Aelita is a Martian heroine from a 1923 novel (said 'ah-eh-LEE-tah'). Ethereal — routes uncertain, which we note.
MeaningA literary coinage from Aleksei Tolstoy's 1923 Russian sci-fi novel 'Aelita,' the name of a Martian princess. Its meaning is invented; routes uncertain, though it evokes the ethereal and otherworldly.
Aelita comes from Aleksei Tolstoy's 1923 novel of the same name, a Martian heroine later brought to the silver screen. As a coined literary name its meaning is invented and routes uncertain, which we note — rare and ethereal (said 'ah-eh-LEE-tah').
It appears only very rarely in the U.S. Rare, literary, and otherworldly.
Did you know? Aelita was coined by Russian author Aleksei Tolstoy for his 1923 sci-fi novel — the name of a Martian princess — later a famous silent film, so it carries an otherworldly, retro-futurist charm; its meaning is invented, which we note (said 'ah-eh-LEE-tah').
