Male or Female

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 87803

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kyntor70" <marcuscason at c...> 
> wrote:
> > I am trying to remember if JKR has ever specified Blaize Zambini's 
> > sex?  I don't remember if she did, does anyone else?
> > 
> > Kyntor
> 
> Geoff:
> As a former Maths teacher, my reaction would be that the pupil was 
> male because my first thought is of Blaise Pascal whose name is 
> remembered in such things as Pascal's Triangle among others.


After waiting for someone else to look up the etymology, I did it
myself. Here's what I found at http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/fre.html:

BLAISE   m   French
Pronounced: BLAYZ
>From the Roman name Blasius which meant "lisping" from Latin blaesus.
A famous bearer was Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and philosopher
from France.

"Lisping," eh? Not a very formidable Slytherin. Wonder what Zabini (no
M) means or implies?

Carol