Monday, June 6, 2011

How did Italian names change?

Back in the days of the Caesars, most Italian names ended with the suffix 's for example Joephus Flavius (today it would porabably be Giuseppe Flavio), Antonius Pius etc.



How come today all Italian names end in vowels.



I am sure this has something to do with Latin vs. Italian. How and why did the language change and are their still Italian names that don't end in vowels?How did Italian names change?
In yr question you've posted a few Roman names that are in fact composite names (name + surname).

The naming convention used in ancient Rome was that the names of male patricians normally consisted of three parts : praenomen (given name), nomen gentilicium (name of the gens or clan) and cognomen (name of a family within the gens).

In the evolution of the Latin into Italian language ,that has mostly tooken place between the late Middle Age and the early Renaissance and was mainly due to the research of a common language easier than the very complicated Latin, all the Latin names ending by a consonant turned into a vowel ending.Just a few family's names have kept the Latin ending consonants or are ending in consonants because of the region's dialect (in the Venice area many family names are ending in ';n';, while in the Turin ';area'; there names ending by ';s'; or ';t'; and further regions have other consonant endings).How did Italian names change?
no Darline they all end in vowels i am married to one all my Friends names end in voles
Yes, the first are in Latin....don't know how Latin evolved though. Maybe it was influenced by other nationalities, races, and ethnic groups?
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