First Year Latin: Preparatory to Caesar

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THIRD

DECLENSION. Spirant

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Mos, rn., custom.

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CONSONANT-STEMS.

or s-Stems.

Genus, n., race.

Honor, m., honor.

SINGULAR.

Nom. Gen. Dat. Ace. Voc. Abl.

mos morfs

mori morern mos more

honor honoris honort honorem honor houore

genus generis genert genus genus genere PLURAL.

Nom. Gen. Dat. Ace. Voc. Abl.

mores morum mor-ibus

mores mores mortbus

genera generum generibus genera genera generibus

honores honorum honoribua honores honoree honorfbus

1. Note that the final s of the stem becomes r (between vowels) in the oblique cases. In some words, as honor, the r of the oblique cases has, by analogy, crept into the Nominative, displacing the earlier s.

61.

VOCABULARY.

agger, eris, m., embankment, '路am路 part.

altus, a, um, high, deep. arbor, oris, f., tree. Caesar, aris, m., Caesar. consul, is, m., consul. flumen, inis, n., ricer. genus, eria, n., race; kind.

in, in, on, prep. with the abl, Marcellus, I, m., Marcellus. nomen, Inis. n., name. pater, tris, m., father. Rhenus, I, m., the Rhine. silva, ae, f., forest. timor, oris, m., fear.

EXERCISES.

62. 1. Pater consulis, patrt eonsulis, 2. Aggeres altr, aggeribus altIs. 3. Consulis bont, consules bout, consulum bonorum. 4. Arbores silvae; nomina fluminum. 5. Timores militum. 6. Magna flumina, multorum fluminum, in multis Humiuibus.


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