ABSTRACT
There is a Latin proverb nomen est omen: a name is a sign. Everybody and everything has a name: ourselves, our family and friends, animals and plants, things we see (cars, clouds and mountains), things we conceive (countries and philosophies), things we do (football or the Battle of Borodino) and things we ‘remember’ (dinosaurs and Neanderthals); stars still bear the names given to them in antiquity. Names express affiliations to a group, the family, the spirit of a time and names are taken from those whom we admire.
