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Help[Opinions] Re: Comment on the name I created myself
in reply to a message by Vincent1276
Impavidus is certainly an adjective meaning 'fearless'. It does not mean 'fearlessness';that would probably be 'audacia'. Impavidas is the feminine, accusative plural form of the adjective, so it could be used, for instance, in a sentence like: Puellas impavidas video (I see fearless girls). Sorry if that spoils your new word, but accuracy matters. I'm not clear about OTTE. The O is a point of light? OK. So you take the t from tenebris and double it? Lots of darkness? Does e represent a trail because of its wiggly shape, or is there some other reason?
I would pronounce it as you do, to rhyme with the existing English surname Wyatt. In which case the -e seems redundant, and Viotte seems like an attempt by a foreigner, Dutch or German, to pronounce Wyatt.
I would pronounce it as you do, to rhyme with the existing English surname Wyatt. In which case the -e seems redundant, and Viotte seems like an attempt by a foreigner, Dutch or German, to pronounce Wyatt.
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It seems that in Latin, nouns expressing abstract concepts generally use the feminine form. I'm not a Latin expert and can't be 100% sure. Should the neuter form be used here if the feminine form is not used here? TT expresses an elongated shadow that appears when illuminated by light. E also serves an aesthetic function that keeps the whole word balanced. Because the uppercase v will feel more visual weight in the upper left corner, and there is a feeling of instability in the lower left corner. E can be extended in the lower right corner to balance the visual center
If you want a noun, then yes, audacia is feminine. If you want an adjective, its grammatical gender will depend on the noun it is used with: my example above, Puellas impavidas video, would be Pueros impavidos video for I see fearless boys. I don't see how a neuter noun, adjective, whatever can be fearless. In German, all diminutives are automatically neuter, but that's not where you are.
If you look, as I suggested, at the existing ln Wyatt, you've got a visually heavy W at the beginning but no -e at the end, and nobody finds this at all strange or inconvenient. I think you might be overthinking this.
If you look, as I suggested, at the existing ln Wyatt, you've got a visually heavy W at the beginning but no -e at the end, and nobody finds this at all strange or inconvenient. I think you might be overthinking this.