Talk:Iracum

FYI: Both English Wiktionary (Wiktionary:RFV#Iracum) and Latin Wikipedia ([1]) were not able to attest a nominative *Iracum. However, there is evidence for a nominative *Iracus - besides Irac and Iraca -, which then could be feminine (like Aegyptus) or masculine (like many second declension nouns, including some which were originally feminine but also became masculine in ML or NL like paragraphus).

1760, Thomas Flloyd, Bibliotheca Biographica: A Synopsis of Universal Biography, Ancient and Modern. Vol. I., London:
- AMADEDDALAT I, sultan of the race of the Buides: he, in a short time conquered Persia, Iracus, and Karamania. He fixed his metropolis at Schiras 933, and died 949. — Iracus in an English text which could imply that there was Latin *Iracus
1800, J. White, Abdollatiphi Historiae Aegypti Compendium, arabice et latine
- (The appendix has Latin and German text together and has Eraco and Eraci in Latin, while it is Irâk and irakensischen in German) — the nominative could be *Eracus, cf. with the text from 1863 and the English text which has Eracus
1831, William Hamilton, The History of Medicine, Surgery, and Anatomy. In two Volumes. Vol. I., London, page 241 (Latin text inside an English book):
- Natus est Rei, quae urbs in Iraco Persico, aut potius fortasse in provincia Chorassana, sita est, ibique nosocomio praefectur. — ablative of *Iracus or *Iracum; not feminine, that is, if it is *Iracus then it's masculine (though it could also be feminine by other authors)
1831, Henricus Orthobius Fleischer, Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium Bibliothecae Regiae Dresdensis, Lipsia, page 87:
- [...] in urbe Iraci persici Qom [...] — genitive of *Iracus or *Iracum; not feminine, that is, if it is *Iracus then it's masculine (though it could also be feminine by other authors)
  [...] in the city Qom of the Persian Iraq [...] — (?)
1863, Nicolai, Constantinopolitani Archiepiscopi, Epistolae. Tomus unicus, page 1181/1182, 1186 and page 1187:
- Videlicet r, Regionum; u, Urbium; g, nominum gentilium inde ductorum; p, populorum; ins. insularum (fluviorum et montium indiculo ad calcem subdito). — explains the abbreviation r below; regionum is genitive plural of regio
- Eracus, r. (Babylonica, seu Chaldaica) ...
- Irac, Iracus. Vide Eracus.
Julius Ley, De templi Meccani origine, Berlin, page 44:
- [...] in Iracum sive in Jemen profecti sint [...] — accusative of *Iracus or *Iracum
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, London (books.google):
- When Abou Bekr was elected Caliph he made war upon the dissenting Arabs until they came back to Islam. After this he sent Khaled Ebn Walid with a great army to Eracus.
- [...] which was the first tribute paid in Eracus, and the first money which reached Abou Bekr from that province.