The beginner's French book. Life of Alfred the great, by Rapin Thoyras [extr. from his Histoire d'Angleterre]. With a grammatical vocabulary, to which is added a dictionary of the genders of French nouns, by N. Lambert

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Página 77 - All terms seeming to constitute an appellation, and all proper names of men and women, are of the gender of the sex to which they respectively belong, as are likewise all names of animals, when the male is distinguished from the female by a different denomination...
Página 78 - All the names of the days, months, and seasons of the year are of the masculine gender, except automne, which is of both genders; when, however, the diminutive mi (half) is prefixed to the name of a month, the compound word then takes the feminine gender, as la mi-Mai, la miAoût, la mi-Septembre, &c., except also la micarême, and saint days, as la Saint-John, la Tous-, saint, &c.

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