Please help me find a name for a business

September 9, 2007 1:01 PM

Please help me find a name for a business:)

Hi,
I'm trying to come up with a name for my business. It has to be Latin/Greek/some old language name. I'm in photography and design business, and I need something that has something to do with memory/books/pictures or something really cool and catchy. No English names please. Thank you.

posted by leigh1 to Work & Money (10 answers total)

How about "chromento".
posted by schrodycat at 1:35 PM on September 9, 2007

2nding chromento. damn cool.
posted by mpls2 at 1:46 PM on September 9, 2007

DaGuerre est fini
Memento Vivi
Mnemosyne
Palladiana
Ratio aurea
Rikorda
posted by rob511 at 3:04 PM on September 9, 2007

Daguerreohype...eh, too many letters. Nevermind.
posted by SixteenTons at 4:33 PM on September 9, 2007

If none of those sound, it would help to explain why it needs to be Old Greek/Latin and why it needs to be about memories or books or pictures.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:29 PM on September 9, 2007

Déjà vu
posted by DenOfSizer at 5:34 PM on September 9, 2007

"Artrium"
"Codices"
"Pro Libris"
"Euphotic"
posted by Iridic at 6:39 PM on September 9, 2007

Quovis
posted by zackola at 8:33 PM on September 9, 2007

I've often found inspiration browsing Wikipedia's Latin phrases list.

Also: "Radus". And something with "aurea".. Aureus, Auri.. Artibus maybe? Gee, this is fun!
posted by papafrita at 9:34 PM on September 9, 2007

Mnemosyne was memory, personified, in Greek mythology, and further was the mother of the Muses (Zeus was the daddy.)

From Mnemosyne we get the word, mnemonic, which plays very well indeed with the idea of memory and books and pictures, as it's the very definition of using some *thing* to remember something else. This could be dressed-up to make a "protectable" business/trade name a la:

- Mnemonique: tres elegant
- Mnemonix: tres 2.0
posted by deCadmus at 10:06 PM on September 9, 2007