What does Zedus Lapedus mean?
Title says it all. What does Zedus Lapedus--Zedis Lapidus--oh, however you spell it!-- mean?
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MovieChat Forums > Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) Discussion > What does Zedus Lapedus mean?
It's definitely Dog Latin, meaning fake and half-fake Latin pushed through an American marketing company to make it rhyme or sound English-ish. You know, like every Harry Potter spell.
So if it's Latin (or at least Dog Latin), we could only assume lapidis means stone: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=lapis&la=la
zedus could come from cedes, taken to mean "stop", as in: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=cedo&la=la, also as in "ne cede malis," "yield not to evils".
I'll stop there for now, anyone else tag in...
Colin Jensen, Latin tutor
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Hollywood is always out of touch with America.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Jensen. "Stop stone?" I know a lot of slang doesn't make a lot of sense, but that seems a little over the top, especially when there's a translation that actually fits the situation.
I'm of the opinion that the phrase is spelled "Sidus lepidus." "Sidus" translates to "star" or "constellation," and "lepidus" means "charming," "witty," "pleasant," or "elegant." Transformed into colloquialism, then, it would mean something along the lines of "great stars!" Now that's an exclamation that would fit in Zenon's world.
"Oh, stop stone, North of Trees!" <-- possible vogon poetry
Since I barely remember the movie, I'll defer. Good job, NorthofTrees.
Colin :)
Not stars, but a constellation and a moon.
Cetus is a constellation. Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology.
Iapetus is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn, named after the Titan Iapetus from Greek mythology.
It's space girl slang. Nothing else. Think of it in place for words like "Crap", "Omg!", "Grr!", "Rawr!", "Argh", "Oh, no", *beep* "Dammit!", etc..
I'm pretty sure it's not meant to mean something in real life.
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It means "Oh my!"
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