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VORT
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English
Anglicized form of Old Welsh Guorthigern, VORTIGERN means "high lord" or "overlord." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of the king who allowed the Saxons to settle in Britain in return for the hand of Hengist's daughter. Because his castle, Dinas Emrys, kept collapsing, Vortigern consulted Aurelius Ambrosianus, whom Geoffrey of Monmouth identified with Merlin in his retelling of the story.Â
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English wurt, wort ‘plant’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from Yiddish vort, German Wort ‘word’ + man, Mann ‘man’.Americanized spelling of German Wortmann.
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Arthurian
, a son of Vortigern.
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British, Celtic, Christian, English
High Lord; Overlord
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Indian
Enlightened
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English
English name derived from Latin Catigernus, CATIGERN means "battle lord." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of a son of Vortigern.
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Arthurian
, great lord, or, man-prince.
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Arthurian Legend
Name of a king.
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Arthurian Legend
Vortigem's son.
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Irish
Irish form of English Vortigern, possibly FOIRTCHERN means "high lord" or "overlord." In use by the Scottish.
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Tamil
Chanchari | சஂசாரீ
Bird, Vortex of water
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English
English form of Latin Merlinus, the name of a famous wizard of Arthurian legend, MERLIN means "sea-fort." Merlin was introduced into Arthurian legend by Geoffrey of Monmouth. According to Geoffrey, Merlin was the son of a demon and a princess. He became known for his prophetic abilities at a very young age and was consulted by King Vortigern to explain why his castle kept collapsing. Merlin revealed that there was an underground lake in which two dragons slept, a white one and a red one, representing the Saxons and Britons, and this was the portent for things to come. He is also called Myrddin Emrys, meaning "Merlin the Immortal."Â
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Welsh
Welsh form of Celtic Cadeyrn, CATTEGIRN means "battle lord." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of a son of Vortigern.
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Celtic
, man prince.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Bird; Vortex of Water
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Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Somhairle, SORLEY means "summer traveler."
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Muslim/Islamic
Painter artist
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Hindu, Indian
Goddess Parvati
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Tamil
Star, Prosperity
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English
English : habitational name from Milford in Wiltshire, so named from Old English myln ‘mill’ + ford ‘ford’.
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Hindu
Variation to Shanti meaning peacefulness
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Purity; Precious One
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Indian
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, English, German, Hebrew
Red Wolf; Wolf Counsel
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Hindi Muslim
Gratitude; thankfulness.
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pl.
of Vorticella
n.
A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
pl.
of Vorticella
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Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
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A vorticella.
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of Vortex
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A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
n.
A whirl; a vortex.
n.
Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
pl.
of Vortex
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An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
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Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
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Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.
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A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
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A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.