 In Spanish the word became feminine, while in French, Portuguese and Italian it became masculine (in Romanian it remained neuter, "/lăpturi").Other neuter forms, however, were preserved in Romance; Catalan and French ', Leonese, Portuguese and Italian ', Romanian ' ("name") all preserve the Latin nominative/accusative "nomen", rather than the oblique stem form *"nominem" (which nevertheless produced Spanish ').Most neuter nouns had plural forms ending in -A or -IA; some of these were reanalysed as feminine singulars, such as ' ("joy"), plural "gaudia"; the plural form lies at the root of the French feminine singular "(la) ", as well as of Catalan and Occitan "(la) " (Italian "la " is a borrowing from French); the same for ' ("wood stick"), plural "ligna", that originated the Catalan feminine singular noun "(la) ", and Spanish "(la) ".