My son Alaric is looking worn out. The cause? That’s baby Vittorio in his arms.
I remember that feeling, the first month or six after the delivery.
I’d share a picture of the mother, too, but I’m aware that women don’t care to have their picture taken immediately after the extreme stress of childbirth. Maybe next week.
Baby Vittorio seems to be sleeping great and doesn’t look jaundiced. Hopefully the new family gets to go home soon, so the new parents can get some rest while they bond. Nurses coming in to check on mom and baby at all hours of the night is not conducive to a good nights sleep.
i’d love to know if there’s a family reason for vittorio’s name, like, mom italian, or they just thought it sounded cool. it does.
The baby is named after mom’s grandfather or great-grandfather.
I prefer to think of it as commemorating the great progressive victory this week.
I love how your family wraps around the globe. But also, hell yeah.
When my son’s first was born, his in-laws flew in from France to be there for the event and stayed a few weeks thereafter. We all went to the hospital a few hours after baby Emma came to town and I took a pic of her parents with daughter and granddaughter. I have a digital picture frame with all the memories loaded. And whenever my daughter-in-law sees that one come up in rotation, she cringes. Little Emma is 12 years old now and just started high school this year.
“I remember that feeling, the first month or six after the delivery.” When does it end? My son is almost 35 and he still leaves me “worn out”.
The best-known Alaric, king of the Visigoths a bit over 16 centuries ago, was at most a pre-Viking or proto-Viking; I dunno if he even set foot on a ship while conquering Rome, southern France, and Spain.
Congrats!!!!! What a cute kid!
Alaric was Visigoth, one of the Germanic ‘barbarian’ tribes from Eastern Europe. He is known for taking Athens in 395, and sacking Rome in 410.
Vikings were generally Scandinavian in origin, and were raiding monastery’s between 795 and about 1025.
The name is identical in Gothic and Old Norse, meaning Ruler of All.
While I’m being pedantic, Vittorio can also mean life, from the Latin vita.
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Alas, Tethys. Your attempted pedantry is weak.
That is being wrong, not being pedantic. Pedantry entails truth, though it may lack contextual relevance.
Here, for you: https://www.behindthename.com/name/vittorio
or https://www.ancestry.com.au/first-name-meaning/vittorio
(In English, it is ‘Victor’)
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Pedantically speaking, ‘Vikings’ were Norsemen. <clickety-click>
Historically and etymologically, “Viking” describes those Norsemen who ventured at raiding, not an ethnic group. The Old Norse noun víkingr meant a freebooter or sea-rover, and the phrase fara í víking meant to go on an overseas raiding expedition (“a-viking”).
You might want to check your Latin John, victus (n) is another form of vita (v).
Goths aren’t Scandinavian people, though Gothic and Old Norse are very similar languages.
Vikings weren’t a thing until 400 years after Alaric.
Excellent pedantry though!
No it is not, Tethys. I always provide sources, not bullshit. Which I did.
Go on, try to find some source that endorses that claim. You shan’t.
You clearly confuse vincere with vivere.
(You are feisty, but you are also unversed and weak)
Why not just lay them out and measure them?
and stop polluting a thread about a cute baby?
Isn’t vita the latin word for life?
Hmm.. Lesse :
tps://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/noun/17820/
Yeah, Seems to be.
If memory serves the botanical word for local weed Periwinkle is Vinca major or latin victorious big(ly.. arrrgh… anyhow..
https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/noun/17820/
Vittorio is a beautiful baby!