Cormac
Cormac is an Irish masculine given name . Mac is Irish for son and can be used as a prefix and a suffix. The origin of the first part is not so clear, however. A common assumption derives it from corb , the Old Irish word for wheel . The name could therefore mean the son of the charioteer , as the fighters almost always appear as charioteers in the island's mythical heroic poems . Other derivations refer to the old Irish word for raven , which as part of the name can stand for legend or legendary .
Language variants
Name bearer
First name
- Cormac
- Cormac Breathnach († 1956), Irish politician
- Cormac Breslin (1902–1978), Irish politician
- Cormac McCarthy (born 1933), American writer
- Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932–2017), Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal
- Michael Cormac Newell (* 1942), British film director and producer
- Kormákr
- Kormákr Ögmundarson the skald , hero of the Kormáks saga
Fictional character
- Cormac McLaggen, character from the Harry Potter novels
Legendary figure
- Cormac mac Airt , the mythical high king of Ireland
- Cormac Conn Longas , prince in the Ulster cycle of Celtic mythology
See also
- McCormick (family name) , patronymic family name derived from Cormac
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cormac on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 952.
- ↑ Cormac on behindthename.com (English)