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rowanhoney · 1 year ago

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I love behindthename . com cos it’s the only place that doesn’t straight up tell me my name is a diminutive of the Irish and means “pure” which never made sense to me and always bugged me. Turns out it’s much much cooler

#everywhere it says catalina comes from the Irish Catherine. like. why’s it travelling in that direction. names and words rarely go that way #but the name trees on behind the name trace it backwards #so that catalina is from caterina (which becomes Catherine later)#but Caterina is from the Greek aikaterine #which is after Greek mythology’s Hecate #which is rly fuckin cool #it seems the pure meaning was somewhere back trying to catholosise it #because obvs don’t want the Hecate association #so Katherine comes from the Greek word katharos meaning pure #essentially it’s a misdirection #is seems Catherine could come from either #but catalina doesn’t have the kathoros route. only the caterina/aikaterine 4 #route*#sorry the pure meaning always bugged me . felt like being called chastity or smth #felt like being imposed by a virtue idk #ultimately doesn’t matter tho ! cos it’s just a meaning

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