Chapter 042Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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Exceptions:
Nouns masculine from their signification: as,
nauta
,
sailor.
So a few family or personal names: as,
Mūrēna
,
Dolābella
,
ScaevolaScaevola
is really a feminine adjective, used as a noun, meaning
little left hand
; but, being used as the name of a man (originally a
nickname
), it became masculine. Original genders are often thus changed by a change in the sense of a noun.
; also,
Hadria
,
the Adriatic.