From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 17:38:01 EST
> Adam Walker <carrajena@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Wouldnt that [Andegavensis] be an adjectival
>> form?
Yes. Latin province names often are adjectival in form (Lugdunensis)
as are French regional names (le Maconnais).
More precisely my reference (Collins Gem pocket dictionary, acquired
when I took Latin in 1971-3, now probably my longest-held possession)
renders `Anjou' as `Andegavensis ager', the Angevin field.
Padraic Brown wrote:
> It's a pretty regular possessive of a place name:
> Universitas Bostoniensis; Archiediocesis
> Washingtoniensis; etc.
Are you sure those are genitive? I read them as "Bostonese U.,
Washingtonese AD."; a genitive of the city itself would more likely be
"-toniae" imho. (Or: -to: -tonis ;) )
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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