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flūmen, flūminis 3rd Neuter
Nautae nōn videt
The sailors do not see
Generally, what gender are 1st declension Latin nouns?
Feminine
Words have three genders in Latin. What are they?
Masculine, Feminine and Neuter
What are the 1st Declension endings?
a, ae, ae, am, ā singular 1st declension
ae, ārum, īs, ās, īs plural 1st declension
Picture 2
clāmor, clāmōris 3rd Masculine
Sunt perīcula in montibus
There are dangers in the mountains
Generally, what gender are nouns of the 2nd declension?
Generally Masculine.
What are the 5 cases we have learned in Latin?
Nominative, subject
Genitive, Possessive
Dative, Indirect object
Accusative, Direct Object
Ablative, by, with, from case (Or object of the preposition)
What are the endings for masculine nouns of the 2nd declension?
us, ī, ō, um, ō
ī, ōrum, īs, ōs, īs
Picture 3
mōns, montis3rd (istem)Masculine*mountain
Rōmānī in itinere sunt
The Romans are on the March
2nd declension nouns end in -us, - ī or -um, - ī. What gender are the nouns that end in -um, - ī?
Neuter
How do you find the stem of a Latin noun?
To fin the stem of a Latin noun, you drop the ending of the Genitive Singular.
eg viae stem is vi
What are the endings for the masculine and feminine nouns of the 3rd declension?
Various, is, ī, em, e
ēs, um, ibus,ēs, ibus
Picture 4
agmen, agminis3rdNeutercolumn (of soldiers), army (on the march)
Estis lūx mundī
You are the light of the world.
What is the ERROR Rule?
How do you distinguish which declension a Latin noun belongs to?
By the endings of the genitive singular
1-ae 2- ī 3-is 4-ūs 5-eī
What are the endings for neuter nouns of the 3rd declension?
various, is, ī, various, e
a, um, ibus,a, ibus
Picture 3
vulnus, vulneris 3rd Neuter
Salūs hominum in Chrīstō Filiō Deī est
The salvation of men is in Christ, the son of God
Why doesn't Rex follow the SOX rule?
the SOX rule is that 3rd declension nouns with endings -s, -o, -x in the nominative case are feminine.
Rex doesn't follow this rule because being a King is a masculine job.
What is an appositive, and what case would it take?
An appositive is a noun (or noun phrase) that comes after another noun (its antecedent) to provide extra information about it. In Latin an appositive agrees with its noun in number and case.
What is the rule for 3rd declension masculine and feminine nouns that have ium in the genitive plural?
They have the same number of syllables, eg hostis, hostis (enemy)
or
The stem ends in two consonants, eg gens, gent-is.