Old concepts sounding new with big words Noun Essentials Old concepts sounding new with big words

But first - Vocab Quiz! If I give the Latin, you write the English, and vice versa. Reception hall Culīna Cook Dog Cubiculum

Answers Reception hall – atrium Culīna – kitchen Cook – coquus Dog – canis Cubiculum – bedroom

Three Properties of a Noun Case – Cases tell us how a noun is used in the sentence (subject, direct object, indirect object, etc.). We’ll look at that more later. Number – singular vs. plural Keeping it singular for now Gender – masculine, feminine, or neuter I sailed here on a ship. (He, She) was a really good boat. I sailed to America. (He, She) is a beautiful country. Doesn’t have to make sense Virtus – manliness – is feminine Stella – star – is feminine, but astrum – star – is neuter

Two Cases We’ve Used Nominative and Genitive On your vocab card: Via is nominative Viae is genitive f. is for feminine Nominative is what we use talking about the noun Genitive won’t be in the book until Latin 2 but it’s important to know Cases are differentiated by the word’s ending. For via: –a means nominative, while –ae means genitive.

Noun Families - Declensions Families of nouns are called declensions. Every declension has a different genitive ending. Words in the same declension use the same endings for every case. Know a noun’s genitive and you know its declension, so you know what endings it’ll use.

1st Declension Nominative ending of –a Genitive ending of –ae Mostly feminine Examples: via, viae, f. culīna, culīnae, f.

2nd Declension Nominative ending of –us or –um Genitive ending of –ī -us nouns are mostly masculine Examples: hortus, horti, m. servus, servi, m. -um nouns are neuter Examples: tablinum, tablini, n. cubiculum, cubiculi, n.

3rd Declension Nominatives have no specific endings Genitive ending of –is Any gender Examples: mater, matris, f. pater, patris, m. flumen, fluminis, n. pax, pacis, f.

Ways to Use Nominatives If a noun is in the nominative case, it’s one of two things: The Subject A Predicate Nominative The slave works in the garden. Quintus is the son of Caecilius.