De Dubiis Nominibus
An early medieval Latin grammatical treatise on nouns of doubtful gender, compiled by an unnamed grammarian.
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- Anonymous
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- Date not recorded
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- Authorship
- Still unknown
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- Public domain
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The authorship story
De Dubiis Nominibus is a late antique or early medieval Latin glossary treating nouns whose grammatical gender was uncertain, citing classical and Christian authors as evidence. It is the kind of working scholastic tool that circulated among grammarians without any claim of authorship, and no name was ever attached to it in the manuscript tradition. Its compiler remains unknown, and its anonymity is typical of the reference literature of its period, made to be used rather than signed.
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