Hey LJ, I just found out in the Latin Mask means Larva.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/mask?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_9675
Translation of mask
noun
larva
mask, ghost, specter, apparition, bogeyman, boggard
persona
person, persona, mask, individual, character, personality
larua
specter, ghost, apparition, bogeyman, boggard, mask
indumentum oris
mask
os
OS, OS, mouth, bone, face, mask
verb
dissimulo
disguise, pretend, conceal, hide, dissemble, mask
protego
protect, defend, cover, hide, guard against, mask
concelo
cover, veil, screen, shroud, cloak, mask
And of course had to check the etymology on larva
larva (n.)
1630s, “a ghost, specter, disembodied spirit” (earlier as larve, c. 1600), from Latin larva (plural larvae), earlier larua “ghost, evil spirit, demon,” also “mask,” a word from Roman mythology, of unknown origin; de Vaan finds a possible derivation from Lar “tutelary god” (see Lares) “quite attractive semantically.”
Crowded out in its original sense by the zoological use (1768) which began with Linnaeus, who applied the word to immature forms of animals that do not resemble, and thus “mask,” the adult forms.
On the double sense of the Latin word, Carlo Ginzburg, among other observers of mythology and folklore, has commented on “the well-nigh universal association between masks and the spirits of the dead.”
I am ready for the credits to roll on this Movie.
Amazing AND icky!!! No wonder the word sounds icky.