Hello all. forgive my ignorance, but, all I’ve been able to gather from my attempts @ Latinizing my name that there is no equivalent for the name Quinn, other than to add -ius. Same problem with my last name ‘Golling’, my middle name, ‘Daniel’ is a bit easier. ‘Quinn’ is Irish in etymology. ‘Golling’ is German. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I think Cuinnius in Latin was formerly preferred to Quinnius, Quinn.
Cuinnius ut nomen anteà praeferendum erat, Cuinni, ut credo.
Leaving Golling alone is OK, unless you can find a good precedent, and here you have one, with Gollingius [maybe an ancestor of yours]:
Non mutandum cognomen novum nisi exemplum habes et hîc habes quidem, ut Gollingius [forsit avus].
Exempli gratiâ:
_“In Academiâ Wittebergensi die Februario M DCC XXIX [1729]…Defendet responsurus auctor Georg.[ius] Christophor.[us] Gollingius”
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zEVJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=De+jure+excludendi+a+S.+Coena+et+absolutione&source=bl&ots=A6fAeHPSp5&sig=9ukfiNf5TEFdAaS84SesMx2KsoY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YYp5T7TMEeem0AXCu-WnDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false\
et
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gollingius&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8_