Re: [tied] Romance Neuter Nouns (was: Lat. -idus)

>This Latin pattern [singular in -o, plural in -a] has been preserved in

both Italian and >Romanian. ... The common innovation is that adjectives
qualifying

>neuter plural nouns have the feminine plural form. Is there any
>trace of this in Western Romance, or indeed in the western provinces
>of the Empire?

I can't think of any. And since the western languages generalise the -s
plural, it would be no surprise if all traces of the plural in -a had
disappeared. Likewise, I cannot think of any nouns which are masculine in
the singular and feminine in the plural, for either Spanish or French, but I
admit to less than perfect acquaintance with those languages!

Peter