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What is a good name for an ancient Greek mortal woman?

I need a name for a woman in my English assignment, which is to write my own myth. While I dunno if it'll help, the story is about the origins of wind.

Bonus points if the name has a cool meaning.

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Latin words aren't always based off of something. My Latin course has a woman named 'Scintilla', with an obvious derivative in English. But another is just "Horatia", the female version of the Latin form for Horace. If you need direct derivatives, just PM me or something... Otherwise, you can base it off of anything. ;)

 

'Ventora' (Of the winds [f.]) is something I've made by taking the genitive of 'winds', 'ventorum', and making it into an obvious feminine form. I doubt it's a real word (unless the Romans had the same thought processes as I do :P), but I think it sounds cool, and has the roots.

-K

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I went with something like "mortal horn that sounds the wind" to get some interesting words to use.

 

letalis, mora, cornu, ut, sanus, ventus, thnhsimothta, kerato, oti, hxos, anemos

 

Letali is a pretty name for a woman although Mora sounds more like a peasant name. Sanus sort of reminds me of Samus and I think it could work well. It depends on how many names she will have, a forename, surname and last name?

 

Letali Keratoti Sanus is a pretty nifty name.

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I went with something like "mortal horn that sounds the wind" to get some interesting words to use.

 

letalis, mora, cornu, ut, sanus, ventus, thnhsimothta, kerato, oti, hxos, anemos

 

Letali is a pretty name for a woman although Mora sounds more like a peasant name. Sanus sort of reminds me of Samus and I think it could work well. It depends on how many names she will have, a forename, surname and last name?

 

Letali Keratoti Sanus is a pretty nifty name.

 

Before you pick some of these names, I figure I might tell you what they mean. :P

 

'Letalis' is the dative/ablative plural form of 'letalus/letala/letalum', which means mortal, but not in the same sense as you wanted it to. It's actually more like 'deadly'.

'Mora' means doubt.

'Cornu' is a neuter noun meaning 'corn' (nowai) or 'the wing of an army'.

'Ut' is the conjunction that introduces purpose clauses or indirect commands, like in the sentence: 'He went to the store to buy a baseball cap'.

'Sanus, -a, -um' is 'healthy(-minded)' or 'sane'.

'Ventus' means wind, but it's masculine, like I said above.

 

The others are Greek, so that's not my field. :P

-K

 

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Thank you very much, people, you're all awesome. Though I haven't picked one yet, I will get to that later. =D

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