Nothing but Nouns
What is a noun?
A noun names a person, place, thing, activity or idea.
What gender are most nouns of the First Declension?
Feminine
The sailor praises or The sailor is praising.
All nouns whose genitive singular ends in -is belong to which declension?
Third
What is an adjective?
An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting and answers the questions what kind, whose, how many, which.
Latin nouns are grouped into families called what?
Declensions
What noun ending tells you that a noun belongs to the first declension?
-ae (genitive singular)
The sailor sees land.
If the nominative singular of a third declension noun ends in S, O, or X, what gender is it? (SOX Rule)
Feminine
An adjective must agree with the noun it describes in what three things?
gender, number, and case
When we show a noun with all of its possible endings this is called _________ a noun?
Declining
What are the first declension noun endings?
-a, -ae, -ae, -am, -a and -ae, -arum, -is, -as, -is
What does Maria nautas videt mean?
Mary sees the sailors.
If a nominative singular ending of the third declension ends in ER or OR, what gender is it? (ERROR Rule)
Masculine
The -us form of an adjective is used for nouns of what gender?
masculine
Which noun form do you go to find the stem of a noun? Nominative Singular or Genitive Singular?
Genitive Singular
What does silva, silvae mean?
forest or woods
Sunt pericula in silvis.
There are dangers in the woods.
If the nominative singular of a third declension noun ends in L, A, N, C, E, or T, what gender is it? (LANCET Rule)
Neuter
If a Latin adjective is one of size or quantity, does it precede the noun it modifies or follow it?
precedes/sits before the noun
What are the five noun cases in Latin and their meanings?
Nominative - Subject
Genitive - Possessive
Dative - Indirect Object
Accusative - Direct Object
Ablative - Object of the Preposition
What does inopia, inopiae mean?
scarcity or want
Flumen est altum.
The river is deep.
What are the third declension noun endings?
-various, -is, -i, -em, -e and -es, -um, -ibus, -es, -ibus
The adjective plenus, a, um must be used with one of which two cases?
genitive or ablative