Monstro = Monster

[neivinha]

Hi all,

this is just a curiosity about the name of the new sensor "Monstro".

I am Portuguese, in Portuguese the word "Monstro" means "Monster" in English.

OK, I have had plenty of sleep.

RED Digital Cinema announces the development of "Monstro", the Mysterium® sensor of the future. "Monstro" is the sensor that that removes all limitations in current sensor technology.

MONSTRO:
Monstro (do Latim monstrum) é o nome dado genericamente a uma criatura lendária de aspecto aterrorizante. Os monstros aparecem em lendas, livros e filmes de terror e nas diversas formas de mitologia. Numa história, o monstro encarna frequentemente a figura do mal que é derrotada por um cavaleiro ou herói que representa o bem e as virtudes.

Wikipedia: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstro


MONSTER:
A monster is any of a large number of legendary creatures which usually appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. The word originates from the ancient Latin monstrum, meaning "omen", from the root of monere ("to warn") and also meaning "prodigy" or "miracle".

Saint George versus the Dragon, by Gustave Moreau (1880)The term "monster" refers to a being that is a gross exception to the norms of some ecosystem. Usually characterized by an ability to destroy human life or humanity, more than an example of "survival of the fittest", natural law, or innate evil. A person referred to as a monster is taken as exceptionally evil, grotesque, unreasonably strict and uncaring, sociopathic, and/or sadistic. The word monster connotes something wrong/evil; e.g.: a monstrous being is: very morally objectionable, physically or psychologically hideous, or a biological sport (a distinct sense of the word), i.e a freak of nature.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster

RED Team, why this name?
scared? I'm not!

thanks, neivinha (MN).

 

[Noah Kadner]

Actually it's an acronym. Try to guess for what..:gun:

-Noah

 

[Jeff Coatney]

Actually it's an acronym. Try to guess for what..:gun:

-Noah

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[Jeff Kilgroe]

Hi all,

this is just a curiosity about the name of the new sensor "Monstro".

I am Portuguese, in Portuguese the word "Monstro" means "Monster" in English.

You're right... To us English speakers it means "Monster" too. As in it's going to be a Monster of a sensor, I guess. A beast to terrorize the rest of the industry and strike fear into the hearts of film purists. ...Eh. OK, maybe not all that.

"Monstro" is also the name of the whale that swallowed Geppetto and Pinnochio.