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What's the basis for this translation of his name? My Latin is admittedly rusty, but I'm not finding any immediate corroboration in Cassell. It could be the neuter comparative of an adjective with a slightly different root entry, but if so, I'm not finding that either. My best gusss so far is that it's faultily based on "masculinizing" ''gentium'', which superficially resembles a 2nd-declension neuter but is actually the genitive plural of ''gens, gentis'', a 3rd-declension feminine ("clan/people"; nom. pl. ''gentes''). Perhaps Queen Elizabeth's maidservants didn't have a good grounding in Latin grammar, though... or maybe when being named, Gentius himself misheard ''gentilis'', which could be parsed as meaning the same thing as ''gentium'': "belonging to our tribes/nation", ~"for the nation's benefit"/"for the common good"?) --[[User:Wombat1138|Wombat1138]] 07:37, 17 August 2010 (PDT) | What's the basis for this translation of his name? My Latin is admittedly rusty, but I'm not finding any immediate corroboration in Cassell. It could be the neuter comparative of an adjective with a slightly different root entry, but if so, I'm not finding that either. My best gusss so far is that it's faultily based on "masculinizing" ''gentium'', which superficially resembles a 2nd-declension neuter but is actually the genitive plural of ''gens, gentis'', a 3rd-declension feminine ("clan/people"; nom. pl. ''gentes''). Perhaps Queen Elizabeth's maidservants didn't have a good grounding in Latin grammar, though... or maybe when being named, Gentius himself misheard ''gentilis'', which could be parsed as meaning the same thing as ''gentium'': "belonging to our tribes/nation", ~"for the nation's benefit"/"for the common good"?) --[[User:Wombat1138|Wombat1138]] 07:37, 17 August 2010 (PDT) | ||
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