What does "Voldemort" mean?

Question

...as is Lord Voldemort of the Harry Potter books and movies, of course.

I know that "mort" means death, but what about "volde"? Anyone?

Answer 1

It basically means avoiding death. ' Flight from death' (French). Here's a link: http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/voldemort.html

Answer 2

Because of the French pronunciation of the name, it has been pointed out that the name "Voldemort" is the same as the common French language words "vol de mort." "Vol" is a masculine noun meaning "flight" or "theft." "De" is a preposition meaning "of" or "from." "Mort" is a feminine noun meaning "death," "end," or "ruin" or an adjective meaning "dead" or a masculine noun meaning "dead man." The combination "de mort" also means "deadly" or "deathly." This assumption is also supported by the fact that Rowling has continuously established that Voldemort's greatest fear is death, which would make his name Voldemort ("flight from death. Another possible literal interpretation for "Voldemort" uses the Latin root, "vol," which means "will" or "wish." This would make voldemort out to mean "wishing for death," presumably the death of others.

Answer 3

Lord Voldemort (vol de mort meaning "flying in death," or "steals of/in death", or, more likely, 'death flight' in French. volta de morte in portuguese means return from the dead)

Answer 4

I haven't done much research (I just briefly checked), but I don't believe the 'Volde' means anything. 'Mort' likely to be a reference to 'mortus', but other than that, I'm guessing it was just meant to be an evil sounding name.

Answer 5

What a wonderful question. Religion is, of course, the form that one's worship takes. Thus there are thousands of forms. Religion includes a system of religious beliefs and practices. The object of the religion may be false gods or the true God. Hence, there is false religion and there is true. Religion can get very fancy or remain simple. In the former case, such as it is today. In the latter case, such as it was in the Garden of Eden. What then is worship to me? How do I worship? To worship means to obey. And to obey means to worship. The two are intimately connected; indeed, they are coterminous and cannot be separated. Specifically, to obey the Sovereign Lord God Jehovah of Armies is to worship Him. I do my imperfect best in this regard. I fall on my face and get back up to try and try again. In the Garden of Eden, so long as they obeyed Jehovah, Adam and Eve were worshiping him. No temple, no Mosaic Law, no meetings. Simply leave the tree of the knowledge of good and bad alone. Simple. The minute they disobeyed, they stopped worshiping Jehovah. Same with the nation of Israel. The minute they attempted to practice a syncretistic religion they stopped worshiping Jehovah. The minute they made the golden calf, they stopped. And on and on. To worship is to obey. To obey is to worship. Hannah J Paul

Answer 6

"volde" means to mourn or feel deep regret. So, Voldemort - is mourn death or regret death. Is there a possibility he who shall not be named might actually regret his vileness?

Answer 7

Voldemort used to be a student in Hogwarts. His real name that his parents gave him was Tom Marvolo Riddle. But he began to study dark magic and started to hate that fact that his father was not a wizard. So he changed his name to Voldemort, as to defy what his father did for him. If you mix up the letters it makes up the phase "I am Voldemort"

Answer 8

Well I would break the word thusly:
vol de mort
Which would literally translate from the French as:
' (the) flight of death'
but probably is more along the lines of
'death's flight. ' or
'flying from death'

Answer 9

tom marvalo riddle(his real name) saying I am voldemort, I think It make it sound more scary with volde

Answer 10

If you scramble up Tom Marvolo Riddle, you can make the words "I am Lord Voldemort".