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--- Anton Sherwood <bronto@hidden.email> 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. ===== il becko Jowans backalars sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast; yen dia s' ouws desfussiont co lê corn sew dda li cabast. .