The Dea Roma Challenge

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

While exploring my newest baby name book I stumbled across the name Dea Roma. That is it's own name, it's not two different names.  How do you pull that off? What names would you pair with it?

It just seems like a challenge to make it sound like a real name and not a title of some kind. Like if I paired it will Bella it would be Bella Dea Roma which sounds like a restaurant or a location of some kind right? So I figured I'd just throw it out for you to play around with. I highly doubt I'd ever use this name, but I figured we could all have a bit of fun with it.

Comments

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Dearoma Grace or Dea-Roma Grace, etc. what does it mean I love the flow of it.

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

Dea I think is goddess, and Roma is Rome (assuming that this name is Italian)....

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Correct. A goddess of Rome is the meaning in the book.

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

But Dea Roma doesn't mean Goddess of Rome, in Latin that would be Romae Dea.
Dea Roma translates to Goddess Rome (but not Rome Goddess).
So in response to the OP, I'm afraid no matter what you pair it with, it still would have that "title" feeling.

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

oops, sorry you are the OP :P I was thrown off by the change of userpic

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I guess it's kind of like how St John is a name. I think it'd be better to use it as a first name, and use both, so people get that that's the first name and not just two middle names.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Sorry, didn't mean to mix you up. I just wrote the book meaning. I found it very interesting to see the precise translation!! Thank you! Like I said, I doubt I'd ever find a use for it but I thought it sounded very pretty.

[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I think it could only be used as a first name and only with a filler middle name.

Dea Roma Marie
Dea Roma Michelle

Because as a middle name, you're right, it's a restaurant.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

When you posted this, I imagined it as a middle name with a very Italian first name, like Adriana Dea Roma or Francesca Dea Roma. Those sound like noblewomen's names (in the best way possible).

If you wanted it as a first name, I guess you could go with Dea Roma Jane or Dea Roma Grace (as someone suggested)---a one syllable name might offset a two-word first name well.

[iam-katie.livejournal.com]

It looks pretty but I can't get over the "aroma" part.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

MY GF has two first names, no middle. This has caused her lots of trouble, unfortunately.