Need help naming a kitten. French or Latin for "Gimpy"

[A HERETIC I AM]

My Sis in law has a cat that had 6 kittens. One of them fell about 10 feet off a balcony when it was about 4 weeks old. She thinks it broke it's right rear leg. It is fine, gets around just fine but has a rather peculiar gait to it now.

Any French or Latin speakers that can suggest a clever name? Something along the lines of "Gimpy" or "Peg-Leg"?


BTW, the momma cat is Spot.


Solid black. Not a white hair on it. Spot.


They have a sense of humor.

[wildhorses]

1. what about "Tripod"?

:shrug:

[txwhitedove]

2. Trépied...? Gimpy translates to Gimpy....

[wildhorses]

3. just plain old Tripod...kinda goes with Spot

doncha think?

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. LOL..."Tripod." Ok....

Tripod

Thats a good start.

[txwhitedove]

5. Trivet !!! He's a little Trivet. Sounds French, .sort of

[LisaM]

6. I vote for Trivet

It's a great name. Or just "Trois".

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Sorry, but the French translation for "3 legs" make me think of toe jam.

trois jambes

but I have a weird mind. Lame is boiteux.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Boiteaux? Pronounced "boy-toe"?

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. It would be pronounced BWA-TYUH. Um, hard to do phonetically.

-eux not -eaux

[nickinSTL]

12. no...boiteux

would be pronounced "bwa-tehw" - or something like that...eu in French is hard to transcribe in English pronunciation...sort of like saying a short e sound with your lips shaped like you're saying a u sound (I know, sounds weird and complicated)

Maybe someone else can explain it better.

[deadparrot]

8. claudus, clauda, claudum means "limping/lame" in Latin.

:hi:

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. "Claudus" is a good one...thanks! n/t

[meow2u3]

15. Just name him Claude

French/English translation. Also, a good pun on "clawed".

[Duer 157099]

16. or, perhaps De Claude?

[unpossibles]

13. when I was a kid we had a cat with a limp

my dad named Chester, from the Gunsmoke character.

what about Quasimodo? or Captain Hook or Peg Leg (or keeping with the pirate theme: François le Clerc AKA Jambe de Bois)?

Or you could go with something sarcastically opposite, such as Grace.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. Decorum

[applegrove]

17. Take it to a vet.