[HPforGrownups] Whats in a name, Latin.

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 71255


On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 02:32 America/Indianapolis, M.Clifford 
wrote:

>> -Evanesco- also contrivedly but its interesting; 'eva' as later
>> and 'esc' as a suffix that gives begin or grow.  So the object is
>> vanished from now and sent to later. Rather than made to be gone
>> completely. I wonder if everyone 'evanesco'ed a whole lot of things
>> at once would _later_ become a little crowded. :b

Random832 responded:

>I read it as just a distorted version of the english word "vanish".
>
>Not everything has to be latin, you know.

Hem, hem. (I just love doing that!)  Actually, everything does have to be latin. :)  Kidding, kidding!  In this particular case, I have no idea where the 'eva' and 'esc' thing came from, but "evanesco" is indeed Latin.  I remembered this when I first saw it in OOP, as I had looked up every possible word with "evan" or "evans" in it in my Latin dictionary.  "Evanesco" was the closest, so I particularly remembered it:

evanesco--pass away, disappear, die out

So, indeed that is just what the spell's affect is, to make something disappear.

Richelle


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