Talk:Loucetios

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Just a note of explanation for why I've opted for the spelling Loucetios: ou is about twice as common as eu, even in Latin spellings. This corresponds to a Gaulish diphthong /ow/ which Latin speakers sometimes equated with their own diphthong /ew/. As for -os vs. -us, Wikipedia seems to have a preference for -os in Celtic names; this represents the indigenous o-stem ending in the nominative singular. We could use the Latin equivalent -us (thus Loucetius), but after all, both these endings must be supplied from the basis of Latin o-stems in the dative -o anyway, so the indigenous Gaulish endings seem just as good to me. (Hope that's not too complicated for comprehension!) QuartierLatin1968 20:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)