Algetty, the Neglected Village

[Thought]

"Probitas laudatur... et alget"

That phrase means "Uprightness is praised... and neglected," in Latin at least. It is "alget" that seems to be interesting here. Unfortunately I have yet to come across the infinitive of that verb, but it looks like the plural imperative of it might be "algete."

Algetty is a village of neglected humans, so it seems likely its name might have been taken from this somewhat famous Latin saying.

[FaustWolf]

Fascinating! Glancing at the Retranslation, it seems it was named "Algetty" even in the Japanese version. I guess it would have been pronounced "Aru-getty" in the original version though.

[Thought]

Ah yes, here we go. Algere, a 2nd conj. verb meaning "to be cold, to be neglectged." Algetty is both. And, based on CC's Angelus Errare, it would seem that someone in Square knew a smattering of Latin.

[utunnels]

Yeah, the difference is Angelus Errare only existed in US version, I think it is only to make Guile's origin more mysterious.

However, after a google search, the results lead me to Algethi.

[Thought]

Ah, good point about AE. But what about Termina? Thats the Latin word for boundary stone (and also the Roman Goddess of Boundaries).

[Lord J Esq]

Very interesting. I tried exploring some possible alternate derivations, but I didn't come up with anything that stood out. You may have stumbled onto a wonderful little bit of Chrono trivia.

Sorry. Trivium!

[xcalibur]

Good find. Perhaps it could be added to the encyclopedia page: http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Algetty.html

right now it states that the name is a fabrication with no etymology.