naiad

To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab.

The word “Nyad” is a derivation of “naiad,” the water nymph from Greek mythology.

Leighton set his youthful figure — a classical nymph or naiad — in a Mediterranean setting.

The herbs in the air reminded her of the hills around Camp Half-Blood in the summer, when the satyrs and naiads gathered wild plants in the lazy afternoons.

Horrors lurked in the primeval forest, not nymphs and naiads.