Meaning of Voldemort

[Elizabeth Dalton]

No: HPFGUIDX 31323

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) wrote [about the meaning of Voldemort's
name]:

> Or "desire of death" ("death wish") from the Latin "volo" (desire) + > "mors" (death).
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> Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who can't figure out why no one has > ever picked up on his first Voldemort derivation

Ummm... actually, that's what I always thought it meant. Or maybe "death of
will". I'd never thought of "flight of death" until Philip suggested it.

Then again, despite a year of French in 7th grade and two years in High School,
I really can't say I speak the language. And the only Latin I know is from
singing classical music. (And somehow I still have a BA in linguistics! Must be
those Japanese and Sanskrit courses, and that semester I spent trying to learn
Zulu. Why couldn't Rowling have used one of those languages?? Well, maybe for
spells in the Latin version. ;)

Elizabeth
(...whose best language other than English is Chinese, which she speaks like a
not-very-bright four year old. Which makes her very bright Chinese
seven-year-old daughter laugh like a loon. Er, not to be confused with a
L.O.O.N.... I'll stop now, shall I?)