Talk:Ferragut

Merge of Ferraù with Ferragut

I merged Ferraù with Ferragut. Both articles treated the same character. I checked the occurrence of the various names using Google (English language) searches for the following terms (shown with number of results):

search terms	number of results
Ferragut giant	38,900
Ferragut Roland	21,500,000
Ferragus giant	231,000
Ferragus Roland	390,000
Ferracute giant	170,000
Ferracute Roland	3,820
Ferraguto giant	65,100
Ferraguto Orlando	29,300
Ferraguto Roland	14,800
Ferrau giant	10,300
Ferrau Orlando	70,300
Ferrau Roland	53,000
Ferracutus giant	9,400
Ferracutus Roland	9,570

The results clearly privileged the use of Ferragut over both "Ferragus" and the Italian (Ferrau, Ferraguto) and Latin (Ferracutus, Ferracute) forms (this, despite the fact that Thomas Bulfinch appears to use "Ferragus"[1]). A merge to Ferragut thus made more sense. NYArtsnWords (talk) 17:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of etymology

Since our project is supposed to be encyclopedic, anyone visiting this article would expect to find an etymology of this name, but there isn't one in the current version of this article. Does it mean "sharpened iron" in Latin? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:49, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]