More Snaping, and some Schafer chafing

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23041

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lisa palmer <redmond_lisa at y...> wrote:
> Tabouli <tabouli at u...> wrote: 
> > Or for the poorly researched and inaccurate: "The word Dumbledore
> > sounds like a contortion of 'bumblebee' [....]"
>  
> Do you know where the name "Dumbledore" comes from? It sounds like
> from your post that you do.  I think Albus is latin for white (and
> at least brings to mind albino and albatros). But Dumbledore was
> just a funny sounding name to me. Where is it from?

"dumbledor" is a word meaning "bumblebee".  I think at least part of
Tabouli's point was that Schaefer contested that it "*sounds* like a
contortion of bumblebee", when in fact it is *synonymous* with
"bumblebee" in one definition.  (The other is the European beetle,
the cockchafer.)

Had Schaefer done better research, she would have learned this too.

Albus is Latin for white, but there are several Latin words for
white -- candidatus comes to mind.  I did a paper in my high school
Latin class on color names in Latin, though other specifics are long
since forgotten.

....Craig