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(c) Latin nouns as Ancilla, Auricula, Cnxxis, Com** Dolhim, 

 Metula, Oliva. Adjectives (Pmshw) ; ,n.l past participles 

 (Productus) should be avoided. 



(d) Compound Latin words as: St;U <r, Thbibrifn- Semi- 

 fmu. ^ 



(e) Greek or Latin derivatives expressing diminution, com- 

 parison, resemblance, possession, as: Liiigular'ni.% LinguUna, 

 Lu.f/ulhiopsi*, Linguklla, Liwjulqriz, Linguist*, all derived from 

 Lingula. 



(f) Mythological or heroic names as : Osiris, Venus, Brisinga 

 Vdleda, Crimora. Such names, if not Latin, take a Latin 

 termination as : Aeqiru*. Gondulia. 



(g) Names used by the ancients as: Cleopatra, frlisawis. 

 Melanin. 



(h) Modern patronymics. These take an ending to indicate 



Patronymics taken from Latin and G« 



ermanic tongues 



retain their original -polling including diaer 



itic marks. 



Names terminating with a consonant tak 



e the ending ws. 



ia, ium as: Srfyxiux, Laimirckio, k'olfikerbi 



, Mulkria, Stalia, 



Kmg, rifi } Ivanezia. 





Names terminating with the vowels e i o, i 



/, take the ending 



us, a, urn as: Blainvillea, Wyvilka, Carol in in 



, Faiiva, Bemaya, 



Quoya. 





Names terminating in a take the ending ic 



i as : Danaia. 



Names ending in n or ean follow the precet 



ling rule but take 



a euphonic t as : Payraudeantia. 





(i) Names of ship, which take the same tei 



•m inations as the 



mythological names (Vtga) or the modern 



patronymics as: 



Blahea, Hirondella, Challengeria. 





(j) Barbaric names taken from languages > 



moken bv uneiv- 



ilized races as: Vanikoro 





Such names must take'a Latin endin* 



Yetus 



(k) Words formed by arbitrary eonibinati 



ion of letters as: 



