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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: converting English names to Latin

>A friend asked me about converting English names to Latin. I told him what
>I knew--which is that you Latinize given names but leave surnames alone.
>
>My question is: what do you do with surnames in a sentence? Treat them as
>third declension nouns or leave them as they be?
>
>Subjunctively,
>~James

I recommend the mediaeval approach, which I apply when latinizing names for
special diplomas here at M.U.N.: if there is an existing Classical or
Biblical declinable equivalent for the first name (like Petrus for Pierre,
etc.) use it, if not (first name or last), make it indeclinable.

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914


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