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The name of London is derived from ''Londinium'', established in the 1st century as a commercial centre in Roman Britain. The etymology of the name is uncertain. The stems ''Londin-'' and ''Lundin-'' are the most prevalent in names used from Roman times onward. The 12th-century account Historia Regum Britanniae asserts that the city's name is derived from the name of King Lud who once controlled the city. A variety of other theories have been proposed since. ==Attested forms== Richard Coates, in the 1998 article where he published his own theory of the etymology, lists all the known occurrences of the name up to around the year 900, in Greek, Latin, British and Anglo-Saxon. Most of the older sources begin with ''Londin-'' (''Λονδίνιον'', ''Londino'', ''Londinium'' etc.), though there are some in ''Lundin-''; but later examples are mostly ''Lundon-'' or ''London-'', and all the Anglo-Saxon examples have ''Lunden-'' with various terminations. He observes that the modern spelling with <o> derives from a medieval writing habit of avoiding <u> between letters composed of minims. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Etymology of London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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