# What's your Renaissance humanist name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471 "2022-08-28T15:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/21 "2022-08-28T23:20:34Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > This thread is fun, and if I’ll ever write a book, I’ll take that as my pseudonym. Thank you! I’m delighted you like it! ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/22 "2022-08-28T23:27:24Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > And I just want to say that the internet is full of bilge about name meanings. Total rotting bilge. Heh! That’s for sure! Where it gets the worst is all the [phony American Indian names invented by white people](http://www.native-languages.org/wrongnames.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/23 "2022-08-28T23:32:44Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > I couldn’t get any of the links provided to work, the first three just returned no results, not sure what I was doing wrong and the last one seems to want me to download and install something first. Sorry 'bout that, I was just pulling links off of the Wikipedia Latin article external links. If I could edit the OP, I’d get rid of Freelang (the download) and replace it with: > **[ONLINE LATIN DICTIONARY](https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/)** > > Latin Dictionary: the best Latin dictionary with a conjugator and a Latin declension tool available online for free! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/24 "2022-08-28T23:32:55Z")
Pardel Lux is already a mock latinization of Pardelluchs, the [Iberian Lynx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_lynx). What that may give in Greek? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/25 "2022-08-28T23:36:54Z")
Well, lynx is already Greek to start with! Since pardel is a leopard, Ancient Greek for leopard is [pardalis](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%82#Ancient_Greek), which gives us pardalilynx. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/26 "2022-08-28T23:39:08Z")
And a Camelopardalis would be a giraffe! My official Latin name is _Lynx pardinus_, according to Linneaus, in italics. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/27 "2022-08-28T23:53:23Z")
Off topic for a second, @Johanna, it’s good to see you around! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/28 "2022-08-29T01:00:53Z")
The closest I can get to Latinizing my real name is **Venia Amnis.** The closest I can get to my dopername is **Romanus Homo Hominis.** That sounds like a new species, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/29 "2022-08-29T03:05:24Z")
Nice! The ancient Greek version of my name is longer than it is in English! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/30 "2022-08-29T04:58:10Z")
In Latin? **Iesus Terrapacis.** Bear in mind that Hebrew is older than Latin, so I am, in effect, modernizing my first name. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/31 "2022-08-29T06:56:41Z")
My surname is “Son of Bartholomew” in Gaelic, so I can opt for either the Latin **Bartholomeus** , or, if I’m really feeling hyped about myself, I could go with the Greek **Ptolemy**. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/32 "2022-08-29T12:18:33Z")
If memory serves, my forename derives from the Gaelic for “noble” and my surname from the Anglo-Saxon for “foreigner/stranger” (or, in the Scottish context “Briton”), so I suppose it could be **Peregrinus (or Britannicus) Nobilis**. I think I could live with that. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/33 "2022-08-29T13:12:58Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Georgius Mercator. I forgot about my username. That would be Unus Lapis Canis. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/34 "2022-08-29T13:18:28Z")
I suspect my username is obvious: Taumega or Tēmagnum. I’m still hesitant to reveal my somewhat unique first name, but I will say my middle name would be Iacobos or Iacobus. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/35 "2022-08-29T13:32:40Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I forgot about my username. That would be Unus Lapis Canis. On review, this isn’t completely correct, because _Einsteins_ is genitive, but my school Latin has degraded so much that I can’t do the declination. Someone to help me out? ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/36 "2022-08-29T14:05:53Z")
A righteous, beautiful goatherd would be anyone’s choice! It practically sings! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/37 "2022-08-29T14:27:18Z")
But only once, on a hill. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/38 "2022-08-29T15:23:21Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Off topic for a second, @Johanna, it’s good to see you around! Hey, thanks! I’ve been around the whole time, it’s just that I read about 2,000 times as much as I write ever since we moved to Discord. Must be the infinite scrolling feature. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/39 "2022-08-29T15:36:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > My surname is “Son of Bartholomew” in Gaelic, so I can opt for either the Latin **Bartholomeus** , or, if I’m really feeling hyped about myself, I could go with the Greek **Ptolemy**. > [@PatrickLondon](#): > > memory serves, my forename derives from the Gaelic for “noble” and my surname from the Anglo-Saxon for “foreigner/stranger” (or, in the Scottish context “Briton”), so I suppose it could be **Peregrinus (or Britannicus) Nobilis**. I think I could live with that. See, I’m not so sure that this is a smart idea. Because now I have a reasonablely good idea of what your surnames are - you’ve both pretty much just told me. @Smapti , when Samuel Johnson toured the Scottish Highlands, he met the chief of your clan, who impressed him by correcting Johnson when the lexicographer called him “Mr. Mac[Smapti]”: “I, and I alone, am Mac[Smapti]”. And @PatrickLondon , you share your name with a famous Scottish warrior, yes? Granted, there’s probably not much harm in revealing just your surnames, but still. Mine is the Scottish form of a common color name, so I could easily translate it into Latin. But I feel weird about doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/40 "2022-08-29T15:47:18Z")
My Doper name is already in Latin. My real name appears in the Bible and thus is already transliterated into Koine Greek. Done and done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471.md?page=3)