Reinhold, Meyer (May 1971). "The Naming of Pygmalion's Animated Statue". The Classical Journal. 66 (4): 316–319. JSTOR3296568. Reinhold notes that the first edition of Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica (1788), does not have an entry for "Galatea", which was inserted in later editions.
Galene in the Smith Classics Dictionary[usurped]. The suffix -teia or -theia means "goddess", as in other Nereid names: Amatheia, Psamathe, Leukotheia, Pasitheia, etc. Hesiod has both a Galene ("Calm-Sea") and a Galateia named as Nereids. Galateia as "sea-calm Goddess" seems a likely inference; the reasoning for Galateia as Milky-White comes from the adjectival form of galaktos, galakteia.
