Word of the day: aquila
As you will see from this essay on my web site, I’m interested in people’s names and how they acquired them and what they mean.
I am currently visiting my son and his family in Kenya and I have just spent a couple of days with my eldest granddaughter visiting a wonderful nature reserve called Sanctuary Farm. At this location, I met a young woman who is called Quily and learned that her real name is Aquila.
In Latin and the Romance languages, aquila means eagle. In the UK, it is the name of an educational children’s magazine. I have never come across it before as the name of a contemporary person.
July 19th, 2017 at 3:15 pm
I have a friend (of the same generation as ourselves) who is known as “Apple”. In his case a diminutive of “Apollonius”
July 19th, 2017 at 5:31 pm
Apple and Apollonius, like Quily and Aguila, convey such different images!