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[ElderCactus] There were worse outcomes (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Stamets to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Longinus (/lɒnˈdʒaɪnəs/) is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance;

The name is probably Latinized from the Greek lonche (λόγχη), the word used for the lance mentioned in John 19:34.[9]

They didn't know this soldier's name so they essentially named him "Lancer". Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's actually worse. The name couldn't be from the 1st century CE because otherwise it would be Lonchinus [lɔn'ki:nʊs]; back then Greek still kept ⟨χ⟩ as [kʰ] (as in "kit"), this would only change around the 4th century or so.

Plus whoever coined that name wasn't fully proficient in Greek, otherwise they wouldn't plop a Latin -īnus into it, they'd go with ⟨λογχίτης⟩ lonkhítēs "spear-bearer, the spear guy" → Lonchites instead.

...the English pronunciation stands out as being weirder than everything above. Also, obligatory:

A spear of Longinus a day keeps the Tang sea away~

[–] hakunawazo 5 points 9 months ago

Ah there is the fork of horripilation. You have one of Sheororaths holy artifacts.

[–] agent_flounder 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Yo Lance, you really get to the point."

[–] PunnyName 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"That's a really good point. Never thought of it that way."

[–] agent_flounder 2 points 9 months ago

"Really piercing insight. Gets to the heart of the matter..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

nickname for Roman soldiers was “Miles” from Latin mille for “thousand” – legionaries walked everywhere giving us the unit of measure, a Roman mile = mille passus (thousand paces)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That sucks, he almost got his place in history.