Name This Horse
Ro’s a green QH/Arab cross that I’ve been helping her owner with. She’s actually Dezi’s full sister, although you’d never guess it unless you saw them moving together. She’s about 14.3/15 hh and has had about 20 rides under saddle, so still pretty green. Very smart. A total princess.
Her barn name is a shortened form of Rocket, because, well, calling a chestnut mare Rocket is just asking for trouble.
However, her owner is filling out registration papers now, so if anyone has suggestions for a registered name, let me know.
Me, I am mostly thinking along Latin/Greek lines:
- Corinna (an Ancient Greek poet and, later, a pseudonym used by Ovid’s lover in the Amores. Means ‘maiden.’)
- Eurydice (wife of Orpheus, meaning Wide Justice)
- Terpsichore (Greek muse of choral dances)
- Meliora (better things)
- Euphrosyne (one of the three Graces, the goddess of joy)
- Metonymy (a rhetorical figure where you replace the name of a thing by something associated with it, such as using ‘sweat’ to mean ‘hard work’)
- Arcadia (has come to represent an ideal bucolic/pastoral location)
- Aida (reward, present, helpful—depends on what origin you choose for it)
- Suki (Japanese for ‘beloved’)
- Briseis (the woman coveted by Achilles and stolen by Agamemnon during the Trojan war, causing Achilles to withdraw from the fight for some time)
I keep chewing over some variation of ‘wine-dark sea’ that would work and can’t come up with anything. The Greek for ‘wine-dark’ is oinos, which isn’t very appealing.
Or names beginning with Ro-—Roxanne, Rohanna, Rochelle, etc.
As you can see, I’m at a bit of a loss. Apparently, all my secret names are for geldings. Suggestions? Ideas?
Annette says 5 June 2010
Rouqine - French for redhead. Logically shortened to Ro, and sounds princess-y.