Is Confucius and Confusion related?

Is Confucius and Confusion related?

First of all, the answer, the two English words have nothing to do with each other, the appearance is similar, purely accidental.

Confucius is the Latinization of the pronunciation of "Confucius". From the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Western missionaries entered China one after another, and it was they who gave Confucius the Latin name. In Latin, there are names that are "masculine", "feminine", and "neutral", and generally "masculine" nouns end with "us". As a male Confucius, its Latin name naturally has the suffix of us.

Confusion once originated from the Latin "cōnfundere", the English word has "to mingle together" - that is, "mixed", this Latin word participle form is "cōnfūsus", so in English confound and confusion go together. Further afield, "cōnfundere" comes from the Indo-European word for "kom" (with) + gheu (to pour), the ancient Greek and Roman wine-drinking activities.

It is worth mentioning that in all European languages, Confucius's name is derived from "Confucius", only in some languages , such as English and French — the spelling remains the same, and in others , such as German (Konfuzius) and Spanish (Confucio) there are subtle changes in spelling and pronunciation.

*The illustration is the "Sacred Achievement Map" by the famous painter Qiu Ying in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was at the same time that European missionaries began to enter China, and the cultural exchange between China and the West began