 
 
 
 
Exceptions: Nouns masculine from their signification:  as,
nauta, sailor.  So a few family
or personal names:  as, Múréna,
Dolábella, Scaevola[1][Scaevola is really a feminine adjective,
used as a noun, meaning little left hand; but, being used as the name of a man (originally a nickname), it became masculine.
 Original genders are often thus changed by a change in the sense of a
noun.]; also , Hadria, the Adriatic.  
 
 
 
 
