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“Santa Clause” would translate to “holy clause”. There might be such a thing but I think you meant Santa Claus :)
by tempodox 4y ago
“Santa Clause” would translate to “holy clause”. There might be such a thing but I think you meant Santa Claus :)
- dtparr 4y agoMaybe just a big fan of the Tim Allen movie?
- justbaker 4y ago[grunts]
- jerf 4y agoMy fingers love adding the e's on the end of any worde that can conceivably take them. Also have that problem with any word that can take an "ly" even if I don't meanly it. Fixed, thanks.
- partomniscient 4y agoThat's supercalifragilisticexpialidociously strangee.
- JohnFen 4y agoI thought "santa" meant "saint"?
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoIt does; the character originates from Saint Nicholas (or Odin, depending who you ask)
- felix318 4y ago“Santa” means “female saint” in Italian and Spanish. Perhaps the English “santa” came from another language but I always found the name “Santa Claus” just horrible.
- nohuck13 4y agoThe name Santa Claus evolved from Nick's Dutch nickname, Sinter Klaas, a shortened form of Sint Nikolaas (Dutch for Saint Nicholas) https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/christmas/santa-claus#sinter-klaas-comes-to-new-york https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/christmas/santa-claus#si...
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoIt’s actually Sinterklaas (without a space) and we still call him that :) We also ended up re-importing the American Santa Claus, so these days we have two festive holidays in December.
- Archelaos 4y agoThe first mention of this version of Saint Nicholas's name has the form "St. A Claus" and appeared in the New-York Gazette of 20 Dec 1773.[1] The same issue also first reported some incident regarding tea in Boston harbour. Nice coincidence. [1] Source: https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2016/12/st-claus-was-celebrated-at-protestant.html https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2016/12/st-claus-was-celebra...
- plumeria 4y agoThe Tim Allen movie series in Spanish is titled "Santa Cláusula".
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> I thought "santa" meant "saint"? Well, santa is a Spanish word meaning "holy" and saint is a cognate French word meaning the same thing. They descend from Latin sanctus; compare sanctify. When the prayer goes "holy Mary, mother of god", "holy Mary" is an exact equivalent of "santa María".
- robocat 4y agoMight as well mention “Sancta Marīa” in Latin, for example from the Christian Hail Mary[1], a recorded Latin version[2], written Latin next to English and Spanish[3] and of course translated into thousands of languages[4] although unfortunately mostly written using /A-Z/i; I am an atheist interested in languages. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary [2] https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/avemaria.html https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/avemaria.html [3] https://hymnary.org/text/hail_mary_full_of_grace_the_lord_is_with https://hymnary.org/text/hail_mary_full_of_grace_the_lord_is... [4] http://www.marysrosaries.com/Rosary_prayers_in_different_languages.html http://www.marysrosaries.com/Rosary_prayers_in_different_lan...
- thaumasiotes 4y agoIn my mind, the Latin form of Mary is Mariam, because that's what my Latin teacher taught me. (He also commented that, unlike Greek names, Hebrew names never inflected in Latin, so that it would be "Mariam" regardless of what case the name should appear in.) But it makes sense that Church Latin would be different.
- fortran77 4y agoI thought it was a misspelling of Satan, but maybe that's because I'm Jewish.
- wongarsu 4y agoSaint is more or less the same as holy, just used as a title. It comes from Old French saint, seinte "holy, pious, devout," from Latin sanctus "holy, consecrated"