Wrapping us back to Jazzo's original post, Cincinnati originally had a different name: Losanteville.

Cincinnati is on the Ohio River where the Licking River flows into it, and from this comes the earlier name, through a polyglottal process of jamming words together: ville (city en Francais) ante (across from in Latin) os (mouth in Latin) and "L" for Licking, so "City across from the mouth of the Licking River."