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Mar 29th, 2006, 11:59 AM
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Origins of the word "nvidia"
I got this in my word of the day e-mail, pretty cool.
invidious \in-VID-ee-uhs\, adjective: 1. Tending to provoke envy, resentment, or ill will. 2. Containing or implying a slight. 3. Envious. Invidious is from Latin invidiosus, "envious, hateful, causing hate or ill-feeling," from invidia, "envy," from invidere, "to look upon with the evil eye, to look maliciously upon, to envy," from in-, "upon" + videre, "to look at, to see." Looks like the vidia people did their homework when coming up with a name. |
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Yeah Lich, I know where you got your name from too.
Lich \ (lĭk) n. 1. A dead body; a corpse. What does that say about you? :p But truly, nvidia could have been someone who said: "I'm watchin a video...an video...an vidia...n vidia...nvidia tralala." 
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And your invidia bit isn't that far fetched, but it's a very appropriate term, high quality video cards with a name that means "to create envy and hatred towards" and sounds like a video thing. Brillient, even if by mistake. |
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