No I didn't -- but I did forget how narrow a (Cosina) Skopar could be. My bad. Incidentally, I'd agree with most of the comments above about the original uses of the names, but (i) I read the question as one about Cosina's nomenclature, and (ii) Cosina's use of "Apo-Lanthar" is ahistorical -- unless of course you take "Apo-Lanthar" to mean "something around 100mm".

All of this branding is pretty silly, really. Cosina's lenses are very good at the jobs for which they were/are intended. If the vital stats, size, weight, performance and price of one of them looks good to you, buy it. But so far as you're a shopper or photographer, ignore the naming. (If on the other hand you're an armchair etymologist, enjoy yourself with the names.)

haha thanks :-)

I intended to ask the question to see if voigtlander meant the names to reflect the properties of the lenses, which they do too an extent e.g. nokton for their fast lenses, as I'm a relative newbie to photography and am very interested in their lenses.

I agree with what you said about the branding - as long as it performs or is right for my purposes i'll buy it :-)

Fingers crossed I'll be getting my hands on either the 35mm 1.4 nokton or the 40mm 1.4 nokton. after a week of considering and trying out I can't decided lol they pretty much the same to me, but I'll probably go for the 35mm as its slightly wider and will fit nicely between the pana 20mm and the 45mm pana-leica which is also on my shopping list.

decisions, decisions...