Help name our kitty!

[mrspunkysmom]

In keeping with your naming convention:

(from Behind the Name dot com)

I like Harmonia: She was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, given by Zeus to Cadmus to be his wife.

She is black and white and a blending of the two colors. Perhaps a word that represents the yin and yang?

Try the following link. Apologies if you have seen it already

Late Roman Names


a Latin translator gave caseus as a translation for cheese.

Another dictionary had these options also:

caseum, casei
cheese; pressed curd; comic term of endearment

caseus, casei N
cheese; pressed curd; comic term of endearment

calathus, calathi
wicker basket, flower basket; wine-cup; milk pail; cheese/curdled milk bowl;

casearius, casearia, casearium
of/pertaining to cheese, cheese-;

tyrotarichos, tyrotarichi
dish of cheese and salt-fish;

caseolus, caseoli
small cheese;

Other latin dictionary and translator

Latin Dict Home

Anne

[LuckyNumber7]

Karen - you're right, I didn't even think of that! She certainly has stolen our hearts

krazyaboutkatz - thank you so much for the suggestions! I really like Melaina and Melantha - those are both really pretty.

mrspunkysmom - wow - you gave me so many great resources, thank you SO much!! I had been doing a lot of google searches for roman names and greek names, etc, but had not seen those particular links yet. I had actually considered the yin and yang thing because of her colors - I will have to look into that and see if there are any words representing the symbol that would work as a name for our little girl. Oh, and this -

"caseolus, caseoli
small cheese"

had me CRACKING up laughing. How funny of a name would that be for Cheddar when he arrives?! I think we have decided on Marcus for him though (as in Marcus Aurelius), who was the father of Commodus (which was the name of our kitten who we lost). I wanted a name to somehow memorialize him, and I think Marcus fits well. Or the other one we were thinking of for him was Lucius, which was actually Commodus's birth name - "Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus", and Lucius means "light" which I like a lot. However, I think we're planning on calling him Marcus Cheddar, or MC I guess we will have to see what his personality is like though, when we meet him.

It would be so funny to name him something meaning "small cheese"...but it seems like we have bad luck when naming our animals something having to do with their small stature. We named our 5th ferret "Little Guy" and call him "LG". He was a tiny little baby boy when we got him. I had pointed out to the pet store that he was deaf (they know nothing about ferrets, it was ridiculous) and they assured me that "he will be taken off of display and returned to the breeder". I was horrified, and asked to speak to the manager. I told him that we owned one deaf ferret already and that she was just as good as any other ferret - just deaf, so we use hand signals with her. He said that "noone would want to buy a deaf ferret, but the breeders would take him back". I told him that the breeders would kill it, since they have no use for a deaf ferret either. He shrugged and said "probably". So I asked him if I could buy him, and he said that I could have him for free if a vet verified that he was deaf. So they brought him to a vet - sure enough, he was - and he called me to tell me to come pick up my "defective ferret" lol

Anyways, we named him LG, and he is now the biggest ferret I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen a LOT of ferrets. He's gigantic. I think he's mocking us by eating a lot so that his name doesn't fit him anymore.

This is LG when we got him







Pretty little, right??

Yeah...this is LG now.







He's bigger than our cat. I can't figure it out - he gets a lot of exercise