![]() For example, the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is called Diocesis Angelorum in Latin, "Diocese of (the) angels". If the city is named for a specific thing, and especially if its name is a Romance language word or phrase, it may be directly translated into Latin.The words are re-interpreted to fit Latin declensions Illinois is treated as a third-declension noun.The words are adjusted to fit Latin declensions: Kansas appears as either Cansas, Cansatis or Cansa, Cansae Chicago, Ohio, and Idaho become consonant stems, with genitives Chicagonis, Ohionis, Idahonis, &c., by analogy with many Latin nouns whose nominative form ends in o.Calques are resorted to if the New World name is based on an Old World name the various Parises in the United States are likely to become Lutetia, and Novum Eboracum or Neo-Eboracum represents New York, because Eboracum is the city of York in England. ![]() The word may already be in Latin or Greek form: Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta.Hence Baltimorum for "Baltimore," Albania for "Albany." A classical ending such as - um or - a is added or substituted on the end of the source word.Similar strategies are used for places beyond those known to the Roman Empire: Others were adopted directly, often treating the new place names as indeclinable nouns here Yerushalem is brought over as Jerusalem, with the Latin J being pronounced as an English Y sound and the /sh/ being transliterated to the closest Latin sound, /s/. ![]() They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtless influenced by Greek ἱερος ( hieros), "holy". Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators. For instance, places may not have existed during the Roman period, or may not been given a Latin name, or it may have been forgotten. Users of Neo-Latin have needed to construct Latin city names for contemporary use. ![]()
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