The renaming of Paris

Paris was founded in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic people called the Parisii. They gave the city its name.
Suppose Paris, France was not named Paris.
What is the city's new name?
 
It was there before Roman times and was called Lutetia by the Romans (and a similar name by the Greeks before the Romans), only being renamed Paris around 360 CE - it was not known as Paris before then. So Lutetia or some derivative of it I guess.

So Lutetie? Lutece? Luteville?
 
It was there before Roman times and was called Lutetia by the Romans (and a similar name by the Greeks before the Romans), only being renamed Paris around 360 CE - it was not known as Paris before then. So Lutetia or some derivative of it I guess.

So Lutetie? Lutece? Luteville?

Luteche, perhaps?
 
Latin -tia generally corresponds to French -ce from what I can tell, e.g. Florence, Venice, Valence (Valencia), so Lutece seems the most likely to me.
 
Isn't that a re-Latinisation though? I could see the inner "t" being dropped as ever. So perhaps Louece and eventually Louice ;)

It wouldn't rule Lutèce out. People of high stature still referred to Paris as Lutetia when writing in Latin, for instance:

Emperor Charles V said:
Lutetia non-urbs, sed orbis (Paris is not a city, but a universe).
 
Before the Parisii came the Sequanians, who gave their name to River Seine. Perhaps it could be possible to swap the names.
Either way Lutetia is Lutèce, there's no changing that.
 
Paris was founded in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic people called the Parisii. They gave the city its name.
Suppose Paris, France was not named Paris.
What is the city's new name?

Well first off, why would it not be named Paris? Without knowing the reason it is hard to say.
 
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