Talk:larina

larina
Definition: Gives as etymology:
 * 1) a lady; a woman of high social class.
 * From Latin.

Three things are highly suspicious:
 * 1)  is a plural of, a deity associated with a household, among other things- not a singular of any word for lord
 * 2) The very comprehensive Lewis and Short Latin dictionary at Perseus doesn't have larina.
 * 3) The IP who created this also created created the entry for the given name Larina, with the same etymology. They have edited nothing else beyond a few related entries.

It's possible that both words are post-classical, in which case the references I have wouldn't include them whether they existed or not- so I brought this here.

I tried searching Google Books, but there are lots of mentions of the name and scannos for Latin. Searching for larinae (the expected nominative plural/genitive singular form) brought up a subfamily of gulls and another subfamily of beetles, as well as scannos for Latinae. There was no hint of anything supporting this entry among hundreds of hits I looked at, but there are lots of hits I didn't get to. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:58, 2 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Nothing remotely likely in Niemeyer's Medieval Latin Lexicon --Catsidhe (verba, facta) 04:07, 2 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Looking through some baby name sites says it is Greek meaning seagull,  says it is Latin meaning seagull,  says it is a variation of Laraine or Lara which it claims is Latin but our entry says Russian,  says it is a Russian diminutive of Klara or Larissa, and  does not have Larina, but has Larin as a male name derived from Lawrence.  No consistency there then except they all consistently fail to verify our entry. Spinning Spark  08:01, 2 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Baby Name websites, as a rule, make "wild guesswork based on complete working ignorance" look like active scholarship. The more relevant link I can think of is the connection to Russian, either as a variant of Lara, or as evidenced in Eugene Onegin as the surname of Татьяна Ларина (Tatyana Larina). --Catsidhe (verba, facta) 08:13, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Gaffiot, a Latin-French dictionary of a similar stature to Lewis & Short has no entry. Mglovesfun (talk) 01:38, 9 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete larina, I don't know about Larina. --80.114.178.7 22:22, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 20:40, 30 November 2013 (UTC)