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Which is quite important, and even has effects in English: cactus → cacti pluralizes like a second-declension Latin noun. But there's no deeper meaning to be revealed by comparing the meanings of words within a particular category: they're just as arbitrary as the Latin genders are.
Exactly what is a declension? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2018年12月13日 · Latin is an inflected language, i.e., conjugations for verbs and declensions for nouns/adverbs/pronouns. I've studied some Spanish in school so here my understanding is basically "declensions are conjugations, i.e., different endings depending on tense, but for parts of speech other than verbs".
When is "diēs" masculine, when is it feminine, and why can this …
The Latin forms Diespiter, Dispiter, U. di, dei together with the word diēs ‘day’ point to the generalization of a stem *dijē-, whereas Iūpiter, Iovis reflect PIt. *djow-. These can be derived from a single PIE paradigm for ‘(god of the) sky, day-light’, which phonetically split in two in PIt. and yielded two new stems with semantic ...
genitive - How to identify the noun declension - Latin Language …
2023年2月23日 · If a Latin noun ends in -i it's probably a genitive singular or nominative plural of a second declension noun (nom. sing. in -us or -um; but if it's -ri, then the nom. sg. might be -er). But it might be a dative singular of a third declension noun, in which case the nom. sing. is possibly in -is , but might be different, and even have a altered ...
Declensions and Conjugations in Latin
2023年1月4日 · The future participle is a first/second declension adjective, meaning it has three different nominative singular endings for masculine, feminine and neuter gender: -us, -a, -um. In the case of aufero, that's ablaturus, ablatura, ablaturum. These are of course just the nominative singular forms, in principle the participle exists in all cases ...
greek - Why is Jesus inflected in such a way? - Latin Language …
2016年3月26日 · As for why Latin would have stuck with the Greek, well, they tended to. Plenty of names that are indeclinable in the LXX or NT were likewise left without endings in the Latin translations. Sacred scripture also adds a familiarity and conservatism to language that makes it nigh impervious to some forms of change, which is why English contains ...
Dies and the fifth declension - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2019年6月27日 · But in Latin and Faliscan, other irregular nouns slowly gravitated to its paradigm. The details of this part are unclear and disputed, but eventually a regular declension pattern appeared on the model of rēs , with the productive suffix -ia gaining a variant -iēs to make new fifth-declension nouns (cf luxuria~luxuriēs , aciēs , maciēs , etc).
Why does Latin have five different noun declensions?
2017年4月28日 · The different declensions started in Proto-Indo-European. Latin regularized and simplified them, giving the five somewhat-regular patterns you're familiar with. PIE nouns came in a few different types: Stems ending in *-eh₂ *h₂ was a "laryngeal" sound, so-called because we don't have a better name for it.
Why 'Vir' is the only word of 2nd declension with -ir ending?
2022年8月7日 · On the other hand, Weiss 2009 (cited by Cairnarvon's answer here) argues that the retention of -us in ferus is regular due to it being a disyllable and that the loss of *-os in vir is irregular and caused by analogy to puer "boy", gener "son-in-law", socer "father-in-law" (Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, Chapter 23 ...
Is unius an irregular genitive? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2020年10月25日 · The etymology of Latin genitive singular forms is complicated. The etymological origins of this genitive singular ending, as well as the regular -ī genitive singular ending of the Latin second declension, are not straightforward and so appear to have been extensively discussed in linguistic literature.