From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 10:12:20 EST
--- Anton Sherwood <bronto@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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 ;) )
The form is Nom. -ensis; Gen. -ensis. I have a
little medal inscribed "Guglielmus Archiepiscopus
Bostoniensis" and my ophthalmologist's Latin
diploma says "Universitas xxx-ensis". Other Latin
diplomas I've seen have -ensis, where the English
versions have "of x".
Mind you, I have no doubt this is Late Latin of
some sort.
Padraic.
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