# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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 30, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/61 "2022-08-30T17:28:42Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > 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…_ I don’t usually reply just to say LOL, you posted an excellent laff-riot! But this time you nailed it. Good one! 😆 ---
**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 30, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/62 "2022-08-30T17:38:51Z")
Custos Collectionum Θησαυροφυλαξ Thēsaurophylax ---
**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, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/63 "2022-08-30T17:49:51Z")
Thanks! You’re the best ---
**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 31, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/64 "2022-08-31T09:36:27Z")
I aim to please. Some of the time. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/65 "2022-08-31T10:34:55Z")
Protathlitís Thamnos ---
**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 31, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/66 "2022-08-31T19:36:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@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. 🙂 Sure, but it’s not _that_ common a name - it’s not Campbell or Macdonald. I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered any of Partholon’s progeny in real life. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/67 "2022-09-21T22:44:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > My username in Sanskrit would be Stoka Nakis ( स्तोक नकिस्), Those are not Sanskrit Words, as far as I know. Little as in junior will translate to Anuj अनुज in Sanskrit And Nemo has a Indo-European root, so the Ne नी part will be the same, and the Mo part comes from homo which is earth. So it will be more like NiSum ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/68 "2022-09-22T12:42:14Z")
My first name means something like ‘God straightens up’, my last name has no meaning I know off or could find. My second name is ‘earnest’, so playing around with Google translate gives me something like Theisióstes Sovarós (isióste = straighten up, sovarós = earnest)? …Theosióstes? Not gonna tell you the Latin name of the street I grew up, or the Sumerian pictogram for my first dog’s name, though 😉 ---
**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:** [September 22, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/69 "2022-09-22T22:29:20Z")
_Stoka_ [स्तोक](https://www.sanskritdictionary.com/stoka/273566/1) is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘small’ (in size). _Anuja_ ‘junior’ is literally ‘after-born’ (cf. French _puis-né_). _Nakis_ [नकिस्](https://kosha.sanskrit.today/word/sa/nakis) is a Sanskrit pronoun meaning ‘nobody’. From न _na_ ‘not’ + कि _ki_ (pronominal base). In my humble opinion, it isn’t necessary to break down Latin _nemo_ etymologically into _ne_ + _hemo/homo_ in order to translate it; a simple translation of its surface meaning suffices. I have to endorse **Little Nemo** ’s translation. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/70 "2022-09-22T23:26:37Z")
Fair enough, Johanna. I am no Sanskrit Expert, and although those words do not ring a bell to me, they may still be Sanskrit words. One thing though, you need the declension of Stoka (assuming its a word) - [Sanskrit Grammarian Declension Engine](https://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/SKT/sktdeclin.cgi?q=stoka;g=Neu;font=roma) You cannot join root words to form a compound word without paying attention to grammar. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/71 "2022-09-23T01:30:55Z")
Solis tang suspendisse ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/72 "2022-09-24T00:28:34Z")
My maiden surname would be Perna Factotem. How would you combine that into one word? My married surname is Coqus. _looks at first name options_ I think I’ll go with Fortis - how do I feminize that? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/73 "2022-09-24T00:52:25Z")
Greek: Ο Θεός θα ακούσει Latin: Deus audiet ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471/74 "2022-09-24T02:37:07Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > My maiden surname would be Perna Factotem. How would you combine that into one word? Just take out the space: Pernafactotum. The ham that does it all. > My married surname is Coqus. Have another u while you’re at it. > _looks at first name options_ > I think I’ll go with Fortis - how do I feminize that? It already is feminine. Rather, it’s epicene, which means the same ending can be either feminine or masculine. Same as its Spanish descendant, _fuerte_. The term _Latine_ was coined to be deliberately epicene (gender neutral), using this quirk of Spanish grammar. For the corresponding feminine noun, try [Fortia](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fortia#Latin). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471.md?page=3)