JASPER NAME ORIGIN LICENSE
The section "History and Origin" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article " Jasper (name)" that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The names assigned by the same folklore tradition to the other Magi, BALTHAZAR and Melchior (see Melchiorre), have also been used as given names in Europe, but only very rarely in the English-speaking world.Ĭognates: Danish: Jesper. There is probably no connection with the English vocabulary word jasper denoting a gemstone, which is of Semitic origin. It seems to be ultimately of Persian origin, from a word meaning ‘treasurer’. The name does not appear in the Bible, and is first found in medieval tradition. There are numerous modern variations such as Γάσπαρ or Κάσπαρ (Greek), Gaspare (Italian), Kaspar (German), Jasper or Casper (English), Jesper (Scandinavian languages), Kacper (Polish), Gáspár (Hungarian) etc.Įnglish: the usual English form of the name assigned in Christian folklore to one of the three Magi or ‘wise men’, who brought gifts to the infant Christ at his birth (Matthew 2: 1). The Cullen family are at the front and center of the Twilight series, and their family dynamics turned out to be too strange for the mortals around them, especially when realizing that two of the.
Its Biblical reference led to its adoption as an English name in the 17th century. The Cullen coven in Twilight is formed by five adopted children, but two of them, Jasper and Rosalie, dont use the surname Cullen and go by Hale. The spelling of the name Jaspar is a French and English transcription of the Latin word Caspar. The name Gaspar or Caspar, along with the names of the other two legendary magi, appeared for the first time in two medieval Latin texts and dates from the 9th century AD. According to church tradition Casper (from the Persian "Gaspar" meaning 'treasurer or treasure bringer') is the name of one of the "Three Kings", who presented Christ gifts.
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