Belcher. — Note on Latin Place-names. 609 



vi. — (gen. -onis). 

 Croto Hippo Olisipo Vesontio 



Telo (Martius) Frusino Pompaelo Tarraco 



Narbo Sulmo Mago 



— all masculine, as the suffix requires. 



vii. — e. 



Tergeste Caere Bibracte Soracte 



Praeneste Eeate Nepete 



— all neuter, as the suffix requires. (But Arelate, a Greek word 

 of 1st declension, is feminine.) 



viii. — ur. 

 Tibur Anxur 



— neuter, as the suffix requires. (Anxur, the mountain, is mas- 

 culine by analogy with the usual gender of the names of 

 mountains.) 



ix. — Various suffixes. 



Gadir Tuder A sty Hispal 



lerusalem Illiturgi Pessinous [-nus) Tunes 



— neuter or masculine. (The indeclinable words are neuter.) 



In all the cases quoted above we note that the suffix deter- 

 mines the gender of the place-name ; the " rule " is not even 

 traceable. There is, e.g., a well-kuoAvn suffix -onis, and another 

 -inis. The former is masculine, the latter feminine : hence 

 Narbo -onis is masculine (Narbo Martius), and Carthago -inis 

 is feminine (Carthago Nova). 



If we follow Latin further afield, the question is further 

 elucidated. In Gaul, the Eomans meet with a place-suffix dim 

 (enclosure, wick, or burg). To bring this suffix within the 

 scope of their system they add a neuter suffix, um, and the 

 place-names become neuter : hence we have — 



Noviodunum Verodunum Camalodunum (Britain) 

 Lugdunum Eburodunum Sorbiodunum (Britain) 

 Segodunum Uxellodunum 



And even such hybrids as Augustodunum and Csesarodunum. 



All these words are neuter. 



But the suffix «Hi, or ium, is freely used to reduce to the 

 Latin scheme a very large number of words found among 

 subject tribes : — 



Londinium Corinium Glevum Lindum 



Eburacum Mancunium Verulamium Regulbium 



(All in Britaua) 

 Turicum Avaricum Aginnum 



— besides words like Trajectum, Durotrajectum, and many 

 others, all neuter, as the suffix requires. 



