Whats in a name, Latin.

[ninnamie]

No: HPFGUIDX 71276

> > Dumbledore can be split in to dum-b/ple-dore
> > and hence can be viewed as: while much is given.
> > Quite apt, I believe since our experience of Dumbledore *is* while
> > much is given........ you know the rest.
> 
> Dumbledore is an old english word for bumblebee.
> 
> > -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
> 
> I read it as just a distorted version of the english word "vanish".
> 
> Not everything has to be latin, you know.
> 
> --Random832


JKR has said repeatedly that "Dumbledore" came from an old word for 
Bumblebee, so why try to break it up and figure out what it means?  
She TOLD us what it means!

And I thought "evanesco" must be related to the word "evanescent," 
which means "fleeting" or "not lasting for a long time."  Before we 
try to break up words and find similarities in other languages, why 
not look at the nearly identical word that we already have in 
English?