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Jose Ruiz Cristina (jruiz@ribera) wrote:
: 	I am a Spanish Ultima fan and I have always wandered
: what is the correct pronunciation for "Ultima"; do you say
: ['ul- ti - ma] or [ul - 'tai -ma]. And, by the way, does it
: have any meaning in English?
: 	May be it comes from Spanish. Both "Ultima" and "Avatar"
: are Spanish correct words.

I suspect the derivation is Latin rather than Spanish.  "Ultima 
Thule" was the name used by ancient and medieval geographers for 
the extreme north.  There's a place named Ultima Thule in Ultima 
I, so Lord British was certainly aware of this.  The "ultima"
in the Latin phrase means "last" or "extreme" and is presumably
the ancestor of the Spanish "ultima" also.

"avatar" is an English word also, derived from Sanskrit.  Originally I
believe it referred to the incarnation of a god, as in Hinduism(?).
Now the meaning has shifted to mean something very much like what
it does in the game:  a personification of some virtue.