Where does the name "Celestia" even come from?

>>29706468
Celestial. Minus the L, to make it sound like an Indo-European feminine name, many of which end in soft vowel sounds like -ia.

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>>29706468
The root of the word is latin, it refers either to something holy, divine, or to something sky-related. It's pretty much the same for languages that derive from latin, with little differences. To me, for example, the word "celest-" conveys the idea of something regarding the sky, and even the color light blue, that of the sky at noon.

>>29706468
It is the long version of her more common name 'Tia.

>>29706774
Thank you, anonymous.

>>29706468
The.. sun?

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>>29706468
Celestia was a somewhat popular girl's name back in the 1880's. Carrie Ingalls' middle name was Celestia.

How badly has the American education system failed that people don't know what the word celestial means.

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>>29706468

this lovely lady

>>29709320
"No child left behind!"
nuff said

>>29709331

"insert crying statue of liberty, HIGH ACHIEVING and NATURALLY TALENTED kids being shackled by NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND and BROKEN HOMES with one of kelly's speech bubble saying DEAD WEIGHT here"

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>>29709320
>>29709331
>>29709370
Good bye, thread

You had a good run while on-topic

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I like to think the word 'celestial' was once synonymous with 'solar' in the MLP universe. But when Celly's sister was banished, Ponies started asking funny questions. If her name was sun-related, why did she raise both the sun, AND the moon? So she lied, and said celestial meant 'cosmic', in order to avoid discussing her sister, and invented 'solar' to describe sun things.

Similarly, 'nightmare' was not a word when Luna fell. She was literally calling herself a 'mare of the night,' but her crimes had such an impact that the word stuck. It was only when Luna returned that she learned, to her sadness, that 'nightmare' was now used to describe bad dreams.