re: #70 LudwigVanQuixote

It’s actually a Ladino root.

I promise that neither he nor any Rabbi who got an acronym, Rashi, Rambam, Rambn etc… ever called themselves by such an honorific. If you were his friend, he probably went by Moshe. I’m sure that’s what his wife called him.

I don’t think it is Ladino. “-ides” is a Greek ending meaning “of the family of,” thus would be a Greco-Latin version of “ben Maimon,” essentially his last name; he was known as Moses Maimonides to the Christian world.