What’s In A Name?

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Katniss

• A root found in wet, muddy areas

• Katniss was used as a broadleaf arrowhead by American Indians

• Latin name: sagittaria

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Primrose• In Latin, prim

means first, so Primrose means “first rose.”

• A primrose is also a pale, yellow flower.

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Gale Hawthorne

• The Hebrew name Galel means “wave of God.”

• In Greek, Galen means “calm.”

• Also, a strong force or wind.

• A hawthorne is a type of rose bush - thorny with flowers. http://irelandgenealogyprojects.rootsweb.ancestry.com/PiperStones/HawthorneTree.jpg

Peeta• Pita bread is a flat,

hollow bread that can be split open, holding a filling.

• In Greek, pita means cake or pie.

• Peta is the Buddhist word for “hungry ghost.”

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Effie Trinket

• From the name, Euphemia which means “fair speech.”

• A trinket is a small ornament of little value.

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Haymitch Abernathy

• Ralph David Abernathy is a famous Civil Rights leader.

• He led a march on Washington, DC after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.

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Cinna

• Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a citizen of the Roman empire, conspired against Julius Caesar.

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Portia

• Portia was the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. She disguises herself as a lawyer to argue on behalf of the character, Antonio.

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Caesar Flickerman

• Caesar: – Roman general and dictator (100

BC - 44 BC) – Means, “head of hair”

• Flickerman:– The Flickerman is a cross-platform

drama in which the dividing line between the real and the imagined is hard to distinguish.

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Rue

• To feel regret, remorse, sorry; to affect with grief, to repent.

• A hardy, evergreen, somewhat shrubby plant.

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Cato

• Acute, shrewd, insightful, wise, clever

• Successful Roman soldier who far exceeded the deeds of his predecessors

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Thresh

• To beat severely, thrash; to thrash about; to toss

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So… that’s what’s in a name!