I notice that nobody thought it odd enough to comment on the fact that there
appear to be only three genders in Latin.
-anus
-ana
-anum

"Al" wrote in message
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An adjectival commemorative epithet
is a name converted to an adjective by the addition of the suffix "-an"
which must be inflected in accordance with the gender of the generic name
(-anus, -ana, -anum).