# Hogwarts
## English
### Etymology

Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens.
Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willan’s use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus.
According to the article Hogwarts, the name is a simple compound hog + warts (cf. warthog).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/, /ˈhɔɡ.wɚts/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒɡ.wɔːts/, /ˈhɒɡ.wəts/

### Proper noun

Hogwarts
* Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
** 2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.
    Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts.
** 2004, John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, page 5:Remember [...] what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
** 2005 A Modern Introduction To Probability And Statistics: Understanding Why and How by Michel Dekking, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, H. P. Lopuhaä, L. E. Meester (page 126)
    Since px(0), px(1), py(0) and py(1) are all equal to 1/2, knowing only px and py yields no information on ε whatsoever. You have to be a student at Hogwarts to be able to get the values of p right!
** 2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette
    Teaching, if you've never done it, is a difficult task. There isn't a real-life Hogwarts to send your aspiring young Witch or wizard to, so teaching children falls to you, the parent.
** 2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190:When people plan out their actions, they do more. When they write out their fears, they solve more. You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.
* Any institution similar in field, appearance, or oddity.
** 2006 June 19, “Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy”, in Sydney Morning Herald:The school, which is set within a grand castle (it's all very Hogwarts), is an international college for students who are selected for their potential
** 2009 June 2, “Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum”, in BBC News:It all feels very Hogwarts.
** 2007, Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús, Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 75:reinventing the university as a mysterious place like a Hogwarts of intellectual capital
** 2009, Kevin Mellyn, Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis, ABC-CLIO, page 198:The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.
** 2010 January 20, “Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot”, in Bluff Europe Magazine:At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines

#### Derived terms

* Hogwarts-esque
* Hogwartsian
* Hogwartsy

#### Descendants

* Translingual: Dracorex hogwartsia (species of dinosaur, now recognized as a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus)

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Hogwarts

### Anagrams

* warthogs

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Hogwarts.

### Proper noun

Hogwarts n (genitive Hogwarts)
* Hogwarts

#### Derived terms

* Hogwartsliknande (“Hogwarts-esque”)