Whats in a name, Latin.

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 71099

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
> <valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> >> > A little trivia about the Latin translations of Harry Potter 
> names.
> > 
> > Voldemort means; wish to avoid Death. 
> 
> June: I always understood a french translation meaning "thief of 
> death".
> 
> > Marvolo, LV's middle name curiously in latin is; My own will.
> 
> June:  I got the impression that this might just be JKR's little 
> joke - Marvolo sounds like a bad RW stage magician "The Amazing 
> Marvolo"
> 
> But of course, both your and my ideas show just how good some of 
the 
> mind games played by JKR are and I hope we'll continue with these 
> ideas. I love some of the other names too.
> 
> I particularly liked Nymphadora and Tonk's embarrassment at it.  
Here 
> in the UK and for all I know other places, there seems to be an 
> increasing amount of parents almost making up names or using the 
kind 
> of (to my mind anyway) very silly names that some celebrities 
inflict 
> on their unfortunate offspring.  Nymphadora seems a bit like that.
> 
> Just my half a sickles worth.
> 
> June

Hi June,
I gave Nymphadora a spin, I had been trying to think of new names to 
put through my blender. ;D thanks.
'Adora'  corresponds to wheat in the latin dictionary, but not 
exactly. JK could be painting Tonks as a 'Meadow Nymph' but I am not 
so sure because the greek and latin blend doesn't work for me.

.. so... I am supposing the type of Nymph that Mrs Tonks was naming 
her daughter for may have been a 'muse'.
Perhaps Sirius fvourite aunt was an artist. I would not be surprised 
with Sirius other _ambitious_ (to use a *nice* word) family members 
that he would feel affinity for the quiet introspective one.

see your half sickle and raise you a knut.
Valky