did you know that the word vatican comes from 2 separate latin words? vatis- diviner and can- serpent. so vatican means divining serpent? creepy!!
2007-03-22 17:24:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How wrong you are
The word derives from the Latin vates, which means "tellers of the future." This name was the name given to a hillside on the west bank of the Tiber River in Rome because daily lineups of fortunetellers used to hawk their "wares" there to passersby on the street. In the fourteenth century, when the papacy was returned to Rome from Avignon (France), the present-day Vatican became the residence of the popes, and the word came to refer to the enclave in the middle of Rome that had become the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.
2007-03-22 17:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by Angel Eyes 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a link would be great. not everyone agrees it is latin - see link below, which says it is etruscan and specifically NOT related to vatis diviner or soothsayer. Why would this be shocking anyways? the name existed a thousand years before Christianity came to Rome. Christians came to the Vatican hill because it was a place for slaves and poor people.
2007-03-23 00:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but no.
Vatican city is named after the hill on which it sits, called Mons Vaticanus. The word Vaticanus is of uncertain etymology, and is likely Etruscan in origin. No reliable etymoloyg relates the divinatory implication. Separating the word Vatican into two words is poor etymology unless the root of the words is somehow certain. In this case, it's not. The hill was named long before the Roman church was placed there, and an etymological study of the word would necessarily have to take into account WHEN that name was applied to that area.
2007-03-23 00:37:52 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wrong! Read the following from the Online Etymology Dictionary, - "1555, from L. mons Vaticanus, Roman hill on which Papal palace stands. An Etruscan loan-word, not related to vates 'sooth-sayer.' "
2007-03-23 00:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Vatican Hill takes it name from the Latin word Vaticanus, a vaticiniis ferendis, in allusion to the oracles, or Vaticinia, which were anciently delivered here
2007-03-23 00:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by jimmy 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
what ever it means - it has to stop ! it is a bunch of old guys sitting around assuming the positions of god like dorks making up rules for human kind!
if I need advice from a guy ,I'm gonna ask my dad who truly means well for my person! he doesn't tell me how to live my life or takes control of my reproductive organs! he doesn't tell me when to or not to have sex! he doesn't wear gold rings and fat gold chains and fur coats to impress me ! he is way taller then the pope and therefor of much more gallant stature! he never was a Nazi , and is the kindest most knowable teacher I ever had!
so let the snakes out we know they are there!
2007-03-23 00:40:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somehow, whenever i see the word Vatican, the following website comes to mind: http://www.vaticanassassins.org/ very strange :)))
2007-03-23 00:43:10 · answer #7 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does the word "Vatican" come from and what does it mean?
http://biblelight.net/vatican.htm
2007-03-23 00:28:45 · answer #8 · answered by RR 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Vatican is a really neat place to visit.
Really.
I Cr 13;8a
2007-03-23 00:30:43 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, it is also the serpent mentioned in Rev.Ch.12.
Be aware.
2007-03-23 01:30:11 · answer #10 · answered by amsops 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋