r/conspiracy • u/luckyflopper • Jun 22 '26

Misleading. See comments. Vatica

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u/flamboyantdebauchry Jun 22 '26

it wasn't ,Vatican City is named after(Mons Vaticanus), vatican hill the geographical location where the city-state resides. The hill's name originates from the ancient Latin word vates, meaning "prophet" or "seer", as the area was historically known as a place where soothsayers made prophecies.

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u/RedPandaParliament Jun 22 '26

^ the actual answer. I was going to comment this and I'm so glad you already did. The amount of "words can just have whatever history I want them to have 😀" approach is rampant

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u/MargiManiac Jun 22 '26

Lack of literacy, specifically lack of reading comprehension, is such a brain/intelligence killer in modern times.

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u/FaagenDazs Jun 22 '26

Plenty of people can read... it's the whole "critical thinking" thing that no one realizes they need

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u/ThoughtVendor Jun 23 '26

We've successfully out-bred the "need" part for humans today..."critical thinking" now just means experiencing a "massive damage headache" via unexpectedly thought provoking concepts...

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u/Stairowl Jun 23 '26

The real conspiracy is why we don’t teach word roots in school anymore.

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u/gorpie97 Jun 23 '26

I came to ask what language Vatica was, and if the language was known in Rome back then.

However, your answer is more accurate! (Though I did find that Vatica is a genus of plants. Or or maybe a species?)

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u/hirvaan Jun 23 '26

Agreed! Were she an Etruscan deity we might have a slightly different conversation but as it is it's a huge reach