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Algetty, the Neglected Village
« on: February 19, 2010, 11:52:01 am »
"Probitas laudatur... et alget"

That phrase means "Uprightness is praised... and neglected," in Latin at least. It is "alget" that seems to be interesting here. Unfortunately I have yet to come across the infinitive of that verb, but it looks like the plural imperative of it might be "algete."

Algetty is a village of neglected humans, so it seems likely its name might have been taken from this somewhat famous Latin saying.

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2010, 12:14:07 pm »
Fascinating! Glancing at the Retranslation, it seems it was named "Algetty" even in the Japanese version. I guess it would have been pronounced "Aru-getty" in the original version though.

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2010, 11:14:14 pm »
Ah yes, here we go. Algere, a 2nd conj. verb meaning "to be cold, to be neglectged." Algetty is both. And, based on CC's Angelus Errare, it would seem that someone in Square knew a smattering of Latin.

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2010, 01:18:20 am »
Yeah, the difference is Angelus Errare only existed in US version, I think it is only to make Guile's origin more mysterious.

However, after a google search, the results lead me to Algethi.

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2010, 10:28:03 am »
Ah, good point about AE. But what about Termina? Thats the Latin word for boundary stone (and also the Roman Goddess of Boundaries).

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2010, 02:42:13 am »
Very interesting. I tried exploring some possible alternate derivations, but I didn't come up with anything that stood out. You may have stumbled onto a wonderful little bit of Chrono trivia.

Sorry. Trivium!

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Re: Algetty, the Neglected Village
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2010, 12:02:12 pm »
Good find. Perhaps it could be added to the encyclopedia page: http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Algetty.html

right now it states that the name is a fabrication with no etymology.