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The Hungarian form is Desider. I assume that Emerick here is an
anglicisation of Imre (a fairly popular name in Hungary, St. Imre being St.
Stephen's son whose main claim to fame, so far as I know, was being gored to
death by a wild boar).
Bernadette Filotas
>
> Szilagyi, Desiderius Emerick, 1910- [from old catalog]
> Peripheral arterial occlusive disease; reconstructive surgical treatment
> [Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1965]
>
> and
>
> Docking, Gil, 1919-
> Desiderius Orban, his life and art / text by Gil Docking.
> North Ryde : Methuen Australia, 1983.
> 143 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
>
>
> Now 'Orban' is an Hungarian surname, as is also 'Szilagyi'. it is
> conceivable that D. Orban (about whose life I know nothing) may have
> been named in a Hungarian linguistic context. But the 'Emerick' part of
> Dr. Szilagyi's name suggests rather strongly that he was named in
> English and that the form 'Desiderius' is in this instance a loan word
> in English, just as it is in English-language writing about Desiderius
> Erasmus (whom we accept into English as such, whereas in French he's
> styled 'Didier Erasme') and Desiderius the last king of the Lombards and
> Desiderius II, the famous abbot of Montecassino, and Desiderius the
> companion in martyrdom of Januarius of Benevento and of Naples.
>
> English accepts and employs name-forms whose linguistic origin and
> spelling are originally non-English but whose pronunciation has been
> adapted to English usage. If English for 'Caesar' [kai'zar] is 'Caesar'
> [see'zer; same or almost the same as English 'sees 'er'] and English for
> 'Cicero' [kee'kero] is 'Cicero' [sis'ero], there is surely no reason not
> to say that English for 'Desiderius' [daysiday'rioos] is 'Desiderius'
> [dezider'eus, desider'eus].
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
> (regretting our e-mail servers' inability to read and replicate symbols
> from the International Phonetic Alphabet)
>
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