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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kelley " <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:

> Lucius Septimius Severus, 145-211 AD, Roman Emperor.
> this sure sounds like an origin for the word severe to me. ;o]

(beside the name Albinus, I noticed the name Lucius up there)

I don't know, but I think that Severus was named from the (Latin 
version of the) word 'severe' rather than the other way around. Just 
a coincidence that the name suited him so well. A counterexample is 
the emperor Commodius. His name (related to 'accommodating') means 
pleasant and easy to get along with, but he himself was a big 
monster.