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Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 1.2. Where does the name "Kerberos" come from? Next Document: 1.4. Where can I find out more information about Kerberos? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge I personally wonder about this myself. I have seen references in "The Devil's Dictionary" that claim it is Kerberos, but when I checked this myself I only found the "Cerberus" variant. I never actually heard of the "Kerberos" spelling/pronunciation until I got involved with Kerberos myself. From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> "Cerberus" is the Latin spelling of the Greek "Kerberos", and according to the OED is pronounced like "serberus", but that is quite at odds with the Greek, as the initial consonant is a "k". MIT Project Athena chose to use the Greek spelling and pronunciation. From: Jan Sacharuk <Jan.Sacharuk@cul.ca> Tom Yu is correct, Cerberus is the Latin spelling. However, the fact that the OED says that the 'c' is pronounced as an 's' is an English affectation. In Latin, the letter 'c' is always hard. So Cerberus is pronounced 'Ker-ber-ous'. The letter 'u' is also slightly different, making it somewhere in between 'oos' and 'ous'. From: Michael A. Covington <Michael@CovingtonInnovations.com> "Kerberos" is the original Greek name. In Latin, the letter K is not normally used, and in Roman times, C always represented the K sound. Also, "-os" is a Greek suffix (nominative masculine singular) whose nearest equivalent in Latin is the suffix "-us" (very familiar in Latin names). That's why the name goes into Latin as Cerberus. (See, a Ph.D. in linguistics is good for something! :) User Contributions:Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 1.2. Where does the name "Kerberos" come from? Next Document: 1.4. Where can I find out more information about Kerberos? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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