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I love ancient Roman names. Most of them are so beautiful, especially the girls names. Here are some of my favorites, what do you think of them?
Aurelia
Lucretia or Lucrezia (which spelling do you prefer? I want people to say loo-KREH-tsee-ah or loo-KREHTZ-ya, not loo-CRAY-sha or something).
Flavia (FLAH-vee-a)
Caius
Any suggestions? Which Roman names do you like?
Aurelia
Lucretia or Lucrezia (which spelling do you prefer? I want people to say loo-KREH-tsee-ah or loo-KREHTZ-ya, not loo-CRAY-sha or something).
Flavia (FLAH-vee-a)
Caius
Any suggestions? Which Roman names do you like?
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I've never liked the sound of Aurelia.
Lucretia is pronounced loo-CREE-shə in English, so I wouldn't use it if I were you. The Italian form, Lucrezia, is very beautiful.
I like Flavia, but it can also be pronounced FLAY-vee-ə in English (e.g. The Prisoner of Zenda.) Caius is a good name.
I also like Antonia, Augusta, Caecilia, Claudia, Cornelia, Cornelius, Herminia, Julia, Laurentia, Livia, Lucia, Lucius, Marina, Marius, Martina, Paulina, Rufus, Sabina, Tatiana, and Valentina.
Lucretia is pronounced loo-CREE-shə in English, so I wouldn't use it if I were you. The Italian form, Lucrezia, is very beautiful.
I like Flavia, but it can also be pronounced FLAY-vee-ə in English (e.g. The Prisoner of Zenda.) Caius is a good name.
I also like Antonia, Augusta, Caecilia, Claudia, Cornelia, Cornelius, Herminia, Julia, Laurentia, Livia, Lucia, Lucius, Marina, Marius, Martina, Paulina, Rufus, Sabina, Tatiana, and Valentina.
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I love ancient Roman names, especially for boys.
I like Aurelia. Lucretia would be my preferred spelling (loo-KRAY-tsee-ah), I wouldn't say EH but AY, since the e is the last letter of a syllable.
I think Flavia is pretty bad actually, I'd never use that.
Caius is cool :)
Other ones I like:
Fabiola
Junia
Aquila (pronounced ah-KEE-lah, I don't like it as ah-KWEE-lah)
Atilius
Cato
Cicero
Marinus (it's a family name for me)
Maximus
Seneca
Thracius
I like Aurelia. Lucretia would be my preferred spelling (loo-KRAY-tsee-ah), I wouldn't say EH but AY, since the e is the last letter of a syllable.
I think Flavia is pretty bad actually, I'd never use that.
Caius is cool :)
Other ones I like:
Fabiola
Junia
Aquila (pronounced ah-KEE-lah, I don't like it as ah-KWEE-lah)
Atilius
Cato
Cicero
Marinus (it's a family name for me)
Maximus
Seneca
Thracius
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I like Aurelia too.
I feel you with the eh=ay annoyance. Honestly, what made people decide that AY was the English equivalent of the european EH sound? The AIR sound of bear, care, stair etc is much closer; if we can pronounce that, we should be able to pronounce EH, goddamnit!
But I think you'd have more problems with people saying loo-CREE-sha. That's how I intuitively want to pronounce it.
I have no concrete opinion on Flavia and Caius.
I like Octavia, myself!
I feel you with the eh=ay annoyance. Honestly, what made people decide that AY was the English equivalent of the european EH sound? The AIR sound of bear, care, stair etc is much closer; if we can pronounce that, we should be able to pronounce EH, goddamnit!
But I think you'd have more problems with people saying loo-CREE-sha. That's how I intuitively want to pronounce it.
I have no concrete opinion on Flavia and Caius.
I like Octavia, myself!
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As a native speaker of language with that sound, I'd say it's more like the EE in deer, fear etc than AIR, but you should be able to pronounce that too ...
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What language do you speak natively? I was thinking of European languages like Spanish and German, with the AIR sound.
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Swedish. (Which is an European language too, but not one you were thinking of I guess. ;))
I've studied both Spanish (2 years) and German (7 years) though, and definitely think it's a more "deery" than "airy" sound (even though they're both more "airy" than Swedish). But describing the sounds of my third and fourth languages in my second language is confusing and perhaps shouldn't be trusted ... :S
I've studied both Spanish (2 years) and German (7 years) though, and definitely think it's a more "deery" than "airy" sound (even though they're both more "airy" than Swedish). But describing the sounds of my third and fourth languages in my second language is confusing and perhaps shouldn't be trusted ... :S
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I agree! It seems to be very common with French names as well. ez-MAY, ren-AY, AY-lo-dee (Esmee, Renee, Elodie).
Oh loo-CREE-sha is even worse. Octavia is nice! It's close to Olivia but less common.
Oh loo-CREE-sha is even worse. Octavia is nice! It's close to Olivia but less common.
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