Latin name translation please.

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The Fearless One. Rest in Peace.
Can anyone advise me what is the English version of the male Latin name Lisidis please.

I have looked in my Simple Latin booklet and tried Google but no help there.

From Family Search: Francisca, daughter of Lisidis (father) Fowell (Fewell) was baptised 28 Sep 1612 at Thaxted, Essex. Although not an ancestor she could be related to my probable ancestor Daniel M Fewell son of Egidii (Giles) & Elizabetha Fewell baptised 7 Oct 1621 at Thaxted.

Aegidi, Egidi etc = Giles, my Simple Latin booklet did have that one.
 
Sorry Findem, only found 'Lidisis' with no meaning available.
Lisidis said to be a surname in Russia,- no meaning available. [yet]

89% of those bearing 'Lidisis' as first name are of Hispanic origin.
Very popular in Florida
 
Found a philology book from 1913 on Archives.org:
Code: 
https://archive.org/stream/harvardstudiesin24harvuoft/harvardstudiesin24harvuoft_djvu.txt
ABARIS PYTHAGORAS LYSIS, EPISTOLAE III

Graece apud Hercher, Epistolog. Gr., Paris. 1873 : Phal. Epist. 57,
p. 422; Pythagoreor. Epist. 2-3, p. 601 sq. Cf. Ambros. Traversarii
Epistolas a P. Canneto editas, Florent. 1759, VIII. 28 : "Volumen par-
vulum misit ad me (Rinucius) . . . Transcripsi ex eo nocte ipsa Plato-
nis definitiones . . . Tres item Epistolas Abaris ad Stilaridem (sic), ac
Pythagorae ad Hieronidem (sic), et Lisidis Pythagorici ad Hypparchum
eiusdem sectae philosophum praeclaras scripsi."
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I don't hablo classic Latin. Tried looking up Pythagoras to see if the name was attached to him somehow, but didn't find anything useful.
 
GrannyBarb said:
Lisidis is a character in 1821 work by French writer Nodier Smarra ou les De'mons de la nuit. It appears to be the latinized version of a Greek name. That's all I got. (shrugs shoulders) :confused:
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Following on from Barb the name is mentioned as being the sleeping partner of Lorenzo in the Phenomena of Sleep: Balzac and Nodier in "Dream Creativity and Madness in Nineteenth Century France" by Tony James
Seems that it may mean 'lucid' (Over my head) :confused:

And... 'The Demons of the night' page 27
"Lisidis, Lisidis, is it you who spoke?" :confused::confused:
Lisidis seems to be a persistent voice.
 
If you google 'Lorenzo and Lisidis' you will come to 'The Fantastic and European Gothic: History, Literature and the French Revolution' by Matthew Gibson. In it he explains 'the tale is a dream of fantasy, involving the nightmare of an 18th century Piedmontese Lorenzo who has just bedded down with his Greek beloved Lisidis. (male, female, not sure)
In the dream he becomes the Roman, Lucius a student at
Larissa......
Happy reading :confused:
Still doesn't tell us the meaning of the name.

Just found...Lisidis is the bride of 8 days of Lorenzo
 
This has got me really intrigued.
This may have nothing to do with the name Isidis but..it looks good.
Navigatium Isidis (the vessel of Isis) an annual ancient Roman religious festival in honour of the Goddess Isis in recognition of her being the patron of navigation and the inventress of the sail. from The Fellowship of Isis, Home page.

Oh bummocks it starts with an 'L' . Back to square one. Forget all of the above.
 
AnnB said:
Wonder if it could have been Lycidas (you know what spelling was like in those days :rolleyes:) There's an entry on Wiki about the name
https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycidas

Ann
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Then looking up the Greek: Lykidas - wolf's cub, from lykos
Code: 
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/11732

Now to cross ref back to English proper names... anyone?

Here ya go:
Code: 
http://www.behindthename.com/names/meaning/wolf
 
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In my Latin booklet I could find nothing that even slightly resembled it, I had the feeling that the parish priests at Thaxted were not Latin Scholars, I would imagine any homework they handed in came back marked "you need to do much better". :)

In the baptism entries for the children of Giles, his name, Aegidi, was spelled four different ways only once as it appears in my booklet, Aegidi, so I'm thinking their Latin was rudimentary. I'll leave it at that for now, so Lisidis he will remain for now, in later research of the Fewells something enlightening may crop up. :D

Thank you all for your input, much appreciated, I will be considering suggestions and checking links, should I come across anything revealing I'll let you know.
 
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