From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 19:08:21 EST
--- Anton Sherwood skrzypszy:
> > 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 ;) )
No no, these are not genitives, but adjectives (of the -is type, like
"fortis").
The conjugation would be:
Nom. Universitas Bostoniensis
Gen. Universitatis Bostoniensis
Dat. Universitati Bostoniensi
Acc. Universitatem Bostoniensem
Abl. Universitate Bostoniense
Jan
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