Jago
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The name Jago is etymologically related to James, the name of two of Christ's disciples, via the late 12th century, Middle English vernacular form of the Vulgar Latin Jacomus, altered in turn from the high Latin Jacobus (Jacob). Whilst the Welsh form of James was Iago, in another Celtic language, Cornish, James becomes Jago.
Since then, Jago has been mostly used as a surname, though it occasionally still acts as a surname or abbreviation.
People, places, and things commonly known solely as Jago include:
- The English poet, Richard Jago (1715–1781) whose most famous poem, the four book long Edge-Hill, described the famous Battle of Edge Hill during the English Civil War in 1642.[1]
- A Child of the Jago, in 1896, the art collector and journalist Arthur Morrison, highlighted the horrors of poverty in Victorian England in the Jago, a notorious slum area in London's East End, where a life of starvation, violence and crime dominated and its inhabitants fought and failed to escape.[2]
- JAGO - a manned research submersible built by Germanischer Lloyd, and also a kit car Jeep and SUV made with parts from Ford.
- Jago was first mentioned in the account of Geoffrey of Monmouth as a King of the Britons circa 1150.
- Jago (Killer Instinct) — the character from Killer Instinct
