Family names /Harry's relations ( Was: OOP: Harry's FIRST COUSIN?? )

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 70653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ravenclaw Bookworm scoutmom21113 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:

> Tonks' first name also comes from the Greek.  The nymphs are female 
> spirits of nature who had the divine power of changing the shape of 
> things and were often the nurses of the gods (another hint?).  
> (Ref:  http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/NYMPHS.html)  Does anyone 
> know what "dora" means in Greek?

Nymphadora means 'gift from the nymphs' the same as Isidora means 
'gift from Isis" and Apollodoros means 'gift from Apollo' (and 
Theodore means 'gift from God'). In ancient Pagan times, people who 
prayed to some god to have a baby and then had one often named it 
'gift of' that particular god. Switching from Greek to Egyptian, 
there were a number of people named Padibast and Tadibast (male and 
female of 'gift from Bastet', the cat goddess). Betcha can guess what 
Padiamum means!