A Little Book of French Grammar, Translated into Latin

indicates the lineage and family from which we were born:
such as Iehan Riant, Robert Estienne, Pierre Pignon:
whence they are called, les Rians, les Estiennes, les Pi-
gnons, for those who derive their lineage from those who are sur-
named Rians, Estiennes, Pignons.

Common nouns or appellatives are those which belong to many: such as Arbre (tree), Homme (man), Her-
be (grass), Pierre (stone).

From these common and appellative nouns, some
signify a body: such as Homme (man), Cheval (horse). Others
signify incorporeal things: such as Vertu (virtue), Raison (reason),
Dieu (God), Ange (angel).

Others signify a nation: such as François (French), Ita-
lien (Italian), Alemant (German), Champenois (Champenois). Others signify a city, or village where someone was born: such as
Romain (Roman), Parisien (Parisian), Lionnois (Lyonnais).

Others serve only for numbers: such as Vng (one), Deux (two),
Trois (three), Quatre (four), Cinq (five), Six (six), & c.

Of these, there are some that denote order
in counting, such as Premier (first), Second (or Deuxie-
me [second]), Troisieme (third), Quatrieme (fourth), Cinquieme (fifth), Sixieme (sixth), Huit-
ieme (eighth), Neufieme (ninth), Dixieme (tenth), Onzieme (eleventh), Douzieme (twelfth), &c.
Vingtieme (twentieth), Vingt & vngieme (twenty-first), Trentieme (thirtieth). However, for numbers ending in e, that e is removed whenever the syllable ieme is joined to them. For example, from Quatre (four) and Onze (eleven), we write Quatrieme, Onzieme, and not Quatreieme, Onzeieme: and so of similar ones.

Others are those that signify a prefecture
over some number of people: such as Quarte-
nier (quarter-master/leader of four), Dizenier (leader of ten), Cinquantenier (leader of fifty), Centenier (leader of a hundred), who presides over