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While searching for something else, I found this word:"alethia". I'm surprised it hasn't been used as a girl's name. It reminds me of Prince Valiant's wife, Aleta, (If I remember correctly.)
" The Greek word that is translated truth in the New Testament is a very powerful and meaningful word. It is alethia."
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I found this word:"alethia". I'm surprised it hasn't been used as a girl's name.
Isn't that the first name of pianist Della Rocha? that's "Alicia," actually
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Although many name-meaning sites, among other sources, seem to translate it as truth this site: http://www.messianic.com/yeshua/preface.htmpoints out that, at root it means not to forget. It's down in the penultimate paragraph.
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Lethe (LEE-thee)
A river in Hades whose waters caused forgetfulness. It was on the banks of another Underworld river called the Styx that the shades, or ghostly remains, of the dead congregated to seek passage to the Afterlife. Unless they bribed Charon to ferry them across the stream, they wandered aimlessly on the near bank forever. But those who made it across the Styx did not have much more to anticipate. Once they had drunk from the waters of Lethe, they were left with nothing to reminisce about for eternity.
But "lethal" meaning capapable of causing death is from Latin: lethal
SYLLABICATION: le·thal PRONUNCIATION: lthl ADJECTIVE: 1. Capable of causing death. 2. Of, relating to, or causing death. See synonyms at fatal. 3. Extremely harmful; devastating: accusations lethal to the candidate's image. ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin lthlis, alteration (probably influenced by Lth, Lethe) of Latin ltlis, from ltum, death. OTHER FORMS: le·thali·ty (l-thl-t) —NOUN lethal·ly —ADVERB
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