Latin Grammar

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Second Declension. Nouns in

-UB

IS

and -um are declined as follows:-

Hortus, garden; stem, hort o-.

Bellum, war; stem, ballo-, SINGULAR.

TERMINATION.

Nom. Gen. Dat. Aee. Voe. Abl.

hortus horti horto hortum horte hortd

Nom. Gen. Dat. Ace, Voe. Abl.

horti hortorum hortis

-us -i -0 -um

-e -0

TERMINATION.

bellum belli bello bellum bellum bello

-um

bella belldrum bellis bella bella bellis

-a -orum -is -a -a -is

-t -0 -um

-um -0

PLURAL.

hortos

horti hortis

-r -orum -is -os -i -Is

Nouns in -er and -dr are declined as follows: Puer, boy; stem, puero-.

Ager, field; stem, agro-.

Vir, man; stem, vrro-,

SINGULAR.

Nom. Gen. Dat. Ace. Voe. Abl.

puer pueri puero puerum puer puero

ager agri agro agrum ager agro

Nom.

puerf puerorum pueris pueros pueri pueris

agri agrorum agris agros agri agris

TERMINATION.

vir virf vird virum vir viro

-0 -um

viri virorum viris viroa viri virts

-I -orum -is -os -i -is

Wanting

-r

Wanting

-0

PLURAL.

Cell.

Dat, Ace. Voc, Abl.

I. Note that in words of the type of puer and vir the final vowel of the stem has disappeared in the Nominative and Vocative Singular.


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