Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 42

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[*] 42. Nouns of the first declension are Feminine.

Exceptions: Nouns masculine from their signification: as, nauta, sailor. So a few family or personal names: as, Mūrēna , Dolābella , Scaevola ¹; also, Hadria, the Adriatic.

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.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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