by Lucia Horatia Adamas » Tue May 23, 2017 10:50 pm
L. Horatia Adamas L. Curtio Philoni fautoribus linguae Latinae omnibus S.P.D.
The Americas do not have any shortage of places with surnames of their founders; buildings with 'Trump' on them are not in short supply, but as far as I am aware, he has yet to found a city (give it time…). We also have many places whose names are derived from Native American ones. Dealing with the Latinization of these is something of a hot topic, but my praeceptor recommended leaving these alone and treating them as indeclinable unless the personal name ones can be easily Latinized. That and many other elements of nomenclature and Latinization are dealt with in the Sermo Latinus courses, which so far as I am aware are still taught at the Schola Latina Universalis, although several other courses they used to offer are no longer available there; I expect to teach one of those in the Fall in a different venue. Those who already are quite competent in Latin (Seneca, Lupus, et al.) really should look into taking these spoken-Latin courses, or at the very least obtaining the text. The French / Latin version, Le Latin sans Peine, by Clément Desessard, reportedly is available online, as are the sound files which accompany it. Otherwise it and the Italian / Latin and German / Latin versions can be purchased from the publisher, Assimil, or from Amazon, and there is a new French / Latin version simply called 'Le Latin,' but one must beware of another text by the same name and publisher with a different author, one who is utterly incompetent. None of the above is cheap…the recent French one (with CDs and MP3) was about $125). However, they are very, very good.
For differentiation, yes, adding an adjective or defining genitive should work.
Vale, et valete!