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Hogwarts
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English
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Etymology
en J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from en hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens.Abel Katy Harry Potter Author Works Her Magic http://school.familyeducation.com/reading/fiction/37736.html?detoured=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060510165309/http://school.familyeducation.com/reading/fiction/37736.html?detoured=1 10 May 2006 Family Education
Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Nigel Molesworth Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willans’ use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus.
in-universe, interpreted as a simple compound of en hog wart warts (cf. en warthog).en 10 December 2017 The Origins of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Pottermore https://web.archive.org/web/20180314232613/https://www.pottermore.com/features/origins-of-hogwarts-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry Its name is very literal / It’s a popular wizarding theory that Rowena Ravenclaw came up with the name of Hogwarts after dreaming of a warty hog that led her to a cliff by a lake. It’s unknown, however, whether this is actually true.
Pronunciation
en /ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/ /ˈhɔɡ.wɚts/ GA
en /ˈhɒɡ.wɔːts/ /ˈhɒɡ.wəts/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hogwarts.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en Q174097Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.
Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts.
en 2004 John Lewis Gaddis The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0195171578&id=ykz1vUT-CWEC&pg=RA2-PA5&lpg=RA2-PA5&ots=gJHdqbH2lh&dq=yale+hogwarts&sig=vilHWxAEonW9yRh2mTPKgUlQSG0 5 Remember [...] what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
2005 A Modern Introduction To Probability And Statistics: Understanding Why and How by Michel Dekking, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, H. P. Lopuhaä, L. E. Meester (page 126)
Since px(0), px(1), py(0) and py(1) are all equal to 1/2, knowing only px and py yields no information on ε whatsoever. You have to be a student at Hogwarts to be able to get the values of p right!
2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette
Teaching, if you've never done it, is a difficult task. There isn't a real-life Hogwarts to send your aspiring young Witch or wizard to, so teaching children falls to you, the parent.
en 2007 Steve Prentice Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower Wiley 190 When people plan out their actions, they do more. When they write out their fears, they solve more. You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.
Any institution similar in field, appearance, oddity, etc.
en June 19, 2006 Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy Sydney Morning Herald The school, which is set within a grand castle (it's all very Hogwarts), is an international college for students who are selected for their potential
en Jun 2, 2009 Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum BBC News It all feels very Hogwarts.
en 2007 Cristina Chaminade; Bino Catasús Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization Edward Elgar Publishing 75 reinventing the university as a mysterious place like a Hogwarts of intellectual capital
en 2009 Kevin Mellyn Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis 198 ABC-CLIO The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.
en January20, 2010 Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot Bluff Europe Magazine At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines
Derived terms
en Hogwarts-esque
en Hogwartsian
en Hogwartsy
Descendants
mul Dracorex hogwartsia species of dinosaur, now recognized as a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus genus
Translations
fictional school for learning magic
Albanian: sq Hoguartsi
Arabic: ar هُوجْوَرْتْس
Armenian: hy Հոգվարթս
Belarusian: be Хогвартс
Bengali: bn হগওয়ার্টস
Breton: br Kerambreoù p
Bulgarian: bg Хо́гуортс
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 霍格沃茨 Huògéwòcí
Czech: cs Bradavice f-p
Dutch: nl Zweinstein
Esperanto: eo Hogvarto, eo Porkalo
Estonian: et Sigatüügas
Finnish: fi Tylypahka
French: fr Poudlard m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Swiniastate
Georgian: ka ჰოგვორტსი
German: de Hogwarts
Greek: el Χόγκουαρτς n
Hebrew: he הוֹגווֹרטְס m Hogworts
Hindi: hi हॉगवर्ट्स
Hungarian: hu Roxfort
Japanese: ja ホグワーツ Hoguwātsu
Kazakh: kk Хогвартс
Korean: ko ^호그와트
Latvian: lv Cūkkārpa
Lithuanian: lt Hogvartsas
Macedonian: mk Хогвортс
Mongolian: mn Хогвартс
Norwegian: no Galtvort
Persian: fa هاگوارتز
Polish: pl Hogwart m
Portuguese: pt Hogwarts
Russian: ru Хо́гвартс m
Slovak: sk Rokfort
Slovene: sl Bradavičarka
Spanish: es Hogwarts
Swedish: sv Hogwarts n
Tagalog: tl Hogwarts
Tamil: ta ஆக்வாட்சு
Tatar: tt Хогвартс
Thai: th ฮอกวอตส์ hor-gwòt
Ukrainian: uk Гоґвортс
Uzbek: uz Xogvarts
Yiddish: yi האָגוואָרץ
References
Further reading
Hogwarts on Harry Potter Wiki.
Anagrams
en aghorstw warthogs
en terms derived from Harry Potter
en Fictional locations Harry Potter
Swedish
Etymology
sv en Hogwarts.
Proper noun
n
en Hogwarts
Derived terms
sv Hogwartsliknande Hogwarts-esque
sv terms derived from Harry Potter
sv Fictional locations Harry Potter