VI. NOUNS DERIVED FROM PROPER NAMES

viz. from names of countries whence a certain article originally came, or from names of persons who invented or introduced the thing, e.g. —

le cachemire, ' cashmere ' (cloth) ; un galetas, ' a garret ' (from Galatha, a tower in Constantinople) ; ime guinée, ' a guinea' (coin fîrst struck in England of gold from Guinea) ; un patelin, ' a wheedler ' (from Patelin, a celebrated personage of a comedy of the fifteenth century) ; »ne Victoria, ' a Victoria' (carriage) ; l'académie, 'academy' (from the gardens of Academus, near Athens, where Plato taught his disciples) ; un Napoléon, ' a napoléon ' (gold coin) ; aoiît, ' august ' (from the name of the Emperor Augustus) ; une cravate, ' cravat ' (worn by the Croates) ; les guillemets, ' inverted commas ' (from the name of the printer who invented them in the sixteenth century) ; un louis (cf. note p. 109), ' a louis' (gold coin); le fiacre, ' cab ' (from the name of the Hôtel St. Fiacre in Paris, A.D. 1640).

Form nouns from the following proper names, and give their meaning in English : —

Bougie (in Algeria, on the Méditer- Mossoul (town in Turkey)

ranean) Macadam (Scotchman)

Cognac (town in France ; dep. Guillotin (a French doctor)

Charente) Gruyère (village in Switzerland)

Tulle (town in France ; dep. Facnza (small town in Italy)

Corrèze) Dédale (the Greek Daidalos)

Roquefort (town in France ; dep. Bayofine (town in France ; dep.

Aveyron) Basses-Pyrénées)

Phaéton (son of Apollo)