From: LEE, Kwan Soo [mailto:kslee@plaza1.snu.ac.kr]

Just found from "The Project Gutenberg Etext of The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary Version 0.50 Letters X, Y, Z and The "New Words" supplement" at ftp://ftp.datacanyon.com/pub/gutenberg/etext96/pgw050xz.txt:

<p><hw>Zope</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [G.] <i>(Zoöl.)</i> <def>A European fresh-water bream (<i>Abramis ballerus</i>).</def></p>

So Zope appears to be a fish made from a serpent, though Jim Fulton once said that Zope was meaningless, iirc.

Reminds me of "Lego" chosen for meaninglessness later found to be meaningfull in Latin.

About a year back, when doing similar research into the name, I also found that 'Zope' is originally am Inca name, and now a common surname in India. And the Central American King Buzzard is locally known as 'Rey Zope' (King Zope? I knew it!). The relevant thread: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-April/thread.html#4601 -- Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org | mailto:mj@digicool.com ICQ: 4532236 | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 -------------------------------------------