Baloo55th 19 year member replies Answer has 4 votes. Source: Baloo's French knowledge, confirmed by checking in his pocket French dictionary. Muggles, to begin, but the whole catalogue of - er - wizards: Albus Dumbledore, Voldemort - er - Hagrid.
JKR: I'm big on names - I like names, generally. You have to be really careful giving me your name if it's an unusual one, because you will turn up in book six. Erm - I - I collect - some of them are invented; Voldemort is an invented name, Malfoy is an invented name, Quidditch is invented, erm - but I also collect them, from all kinds of places: maps, street names, people I meet, old books, old saints, erm - Mrs Norris, people will have recognised, comes from Jane Austen.
Erm - Dumbledore is an old English word meaning bumblebee. Because Albus Dumbledore is very fond of music, I always imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot. Currently voted the best answer. To me, Voldemort always has sounded like Germanic Valdemar or Waldemar "in disguise", but I am surprised to read in this website there might also be an echo of Edgar Allen Poe. I take 'voldemort' to mean 'the will to kill' so as to avoid death.
This is made clear by the actions of the character bearing that name in the stories. He literally kills to create the horcruxes, in the hope that by their creation, he will become immortal and escape death.
When killing Snape, iirc he says 'but only one of us can live forever'. Etymology of invented words is subject to interpretation, as they're just derived from the inventor's imagination. Vol is from Latin, 'volens' the will and 'volere' to will basically reveal 'vol' as the latin root word for 'will', and as someone already mentioned, is carried over into ancient French as basically the same word voulour.
Firstly, I'd like to point out, although it has been stated in other answers, J. All the spells, many names, and more are all either exact words and phrases from the language or indirect spellings and the like. From this, I have concluded that 'Voldemort' can be split into two parts Volde and mort.
Mort, from mors, mortis, would mean death, or perhaps dead from mortus, a, um, the adjectival form of the word. Volde could be derived from the Latin 'valde', meaning very. This theory is the one I prefer; but then, I'm not J. Additionally, "vold" is an English noun meaning Violence or Force, derived from the old Norse "vald".
Voldemort could mean "violent death", but this may be just an eerie coincidence. According to me Voldemort means defiler of death. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. There is nothing on the English Wikipedia but I found something on the Italian one. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Alenanno Alenanno 1, 15 15 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. I always read vol as flight , not theft they're homonyms in French. I think flight of death makes more sense, but it depends on your reading of the character, and JKR might've leant toward the theft interpretation herself.
Of course, it's flight in the sense of a bird's flight, not of fleeing , which would make better sense given his obsession with immortality. I also read "vol" as "flight", but "de" as "from". Thus, one who flees from death.
After he steals death does he by any chance eat it? How to pronounce Voldemort? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. That's because in English, J. Rowling came up with the conveniently amusing middle name of "Marvolo" from Voldemort's magical grandfather's first name to make Tom Riddle's name an anagram for "I am Lord Voldemort.
As Vox reported, translating the Harry Potter series was no easy task even without this anagram in the second book because of all of the made-up words and hefty word counts. Yet, BBC noted that Harry Potter has been translated into 80 languages since this magical and immensely popular series needed to be shared with the world. And while all of the books and films in Harry Potter had a twist, none was so dependent on language as The Chamber Of Secrets when the memory of Tom Riddle shows Harry that his name in the future is Lord Voldemort, thanks to a word puzzle in the air.
Not every language decided to switch up the names in order to make this anagram work, but plenty of them did, which leads to some pretty hilarious names. And while there is not a definitive list of all the translations of Tom Marvolo Riddle, by using The Chamber of Secrets film trivia from IMdB, a Quora thread on the topic , a RadioTimes article , an indy article , and the Harry Potter Wikia page , here are 13 of the best ones.
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