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6 interesting Characters
If you have read Asterix comics, you’d have come across dozens of characters, all imaginatively named. Let’s take a look at the actual meaning behind the English words they are formed from.
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Asterix and Obelix
From ‘asterisk’ and 'obelisk'
The 'asterisk' and 'obelisk' are typographic symbols. Asterisk is a star shaped '*' while obelisk is a dagger shaped '+'.
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Cacofonix
From ‘cacophony’
Cacophony is an unmusical din. Much of what the village bard plays fall under this category!
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Melodrama
From ‘melodrama’
Being ‘melodramatic’ is to be extra emotional. Like some early movies, where you will see deliberate displays of emotion for effect.
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Impedimenta
From ‘impediment’
An impediment is something that interferes. The Chief’s wife is just that sort.
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Geriatrix
From ‘geriatrics’
Geriatrics is the science of aging. And in the comic, it is the old village fogey.
