The druid is Miraculix in German. Miracoli is a brand of instant soups, noodles and sauce. Surely that's an allusion to the magic potion soup. Maggifix would ha

The druid is Miraculix in German. Miracoli is a brand of instant soups, noodles and sauce. Surely that's an allusion to the magic potion soup. Maggifix would have been a bit too ... I don't know, too much on the nose. The name is related to miracle, italian miracolo. Now, -lo may appear like a diminutive, but ... well, I was looking for something that would relate colo- to the pot (correctly cauldron ... et voila) and found that colon kinda figures - but only after reading that Obelix might derive from obelus which is either a division sign which would be on par with asterisk as multiplication sign, or also a totem mark as used in footnotes. An obelisk may be a tomb stone, or could mark an areal division of sides. So, there's another parallel, with obelix as the side character. The greek root obelos (staff, rod; dividing line) is probably related to belos - weapon, dart, artillery; quickly moving - so obelix would be the damage dealer, as deal, part, share, divide are somewhat related. Obolus is from obeli, a small share of nails used for currency, so it all kind of checks out. But in my humble opinion, he's become the main character, the face (Greek ops - eye, face, on the nose, blunt) of the series. Latin ops even means power, force and derives opulent. But in the sense eye, obelix watches over asterix.