# 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:** 3
**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/41 "2022-08-29T16:14:53Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > my username Unilapidis Canis (using the Latin genitive case for _lapis_) Bonus Greek: Monolithou Kyōn ---
**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, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/42 "2022-08-29T16:22:51Z")
Oh, cool! Thanks, @Johanna. I especially like Monolithou. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/43 "2022-08-29T16:29:10Z")
Nemo Minor ---
**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, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/44 "2022-08-29T16:30:43Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > equus agricola in Latin. That should really be combined into one word. Maybe equicola would do. Sounds like an equal opportunity soft drink. Let’s not shortchange you. Equinagricola makes a solid word. ---
**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, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/45 "2022-08-29T16:32:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Nemo Minor Mikros Outis? ---
**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, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/46 "2022-08-29T16:33:50Z")
To me, Hebrew is the only language _more_ Classical than Ancient Greek. (Sanskrit and Tamil mustn’t be left out either) ---
**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, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/47 "2022-08-29T16:43:40Z")
My forename is already pure Hebrew, so no need to do anything more than transliterate it into the alef-bet. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/48 "2022-08-29T16:46:25Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Sanskrit and Tamil mustn’t be left out either My username in Sanskrit would be Stoka Nakis ( स्तोक नकिस्), which sounds pretty cool ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/49 "2022-08-29T17:29:40Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 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. Pfft, I have put enough data on SDMB that any of you wackos could easily find me IRL if you were inclined to. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/50 "2022-08-29T18:17:56Z")
My surname means “of nobility” so **Ex Nobilitatis** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/51 "2022-08-29T18:22:32Z")
And your username translates as Venatio Lepores. ---
**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, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/52 "2022-08-29T22:12:11Z")
I get that, and left it to individual Dopers how much of their names/which names to share. The ancestral name in my female line that I picked from over 200 years ago doesn’t help identify me. ---
**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, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/53 "2022-08-29T22:20:12Z")
As for modern Renaissance men, I’ll bet an ancestor of [Jaco Pastorius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius) back in old Germany was named Schaeffer or Hirt (i.e. shepherd or herdsman). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/54 "2022-08-29T22:26:52Z")
Using my “Delirious” webname, I would skip the Latin and go straight into Italian and be referred to by other scholars by the single name _Delirante_. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/55 "2022-08-29T23:54:01Z")
peccavi is already Latin! In Greek- amártisa No hope of translation of my actual surname. It’s in a Brythonic language and is neither noun nor verb. Beyond that I’ll say nought else, as I don’t care to reveal my uncommonly common true name. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/56 "2022-08-30T00:32:57Z")
My first and last name have agreed upon origin though both are quite common in very different cultures. So I would have no way of translating it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/57 "2022-08-30T02:12:51Z")
My name might translate to something like “keeper of collection(s).” What would be the classical form of that? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/58 "2022-08-30T03:27:28Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Let’s not shortchange you. Equinagricola makes a solid word. Thanks but no thanks. That’s worse than my actual name, which people can neither pronounce nor spell. ---
**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 30, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/59 "2022-08-30T09:59:57Z")
I don’t mind if anyone works put my real-life name from here. It’s not uncommon, I’ve said nothing here or elsewhere online that I wouldn’t say in a letter for a newspaper, and what crook is really going to go through those contortions to find out … what? As for my screen name here, I suppose that could come out as something like **Londonianus Nobilis** or **Nobilis Londoniensis**. I quite like either - sounds like a pseudonym for the author of a scurrilous gossip-sheet of the 17th or 18th century: _Milady A… appear’d exceeding diverted by the tendernefs with which Lord B… peeled her oranges at the theatre last Wednesday eve…_ ---
**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 30, 2022, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/60 "2022-08-30T10:04:02Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 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. You’ve still got about a dozen different spelling variations to pick from, though. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471.md?page=4)