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Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation
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2. Chapter 14 Third Declension i-stem Nouns
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3. Chapter 14 Third Declension i-stem Nouns
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. The Chapter 14 Vocabulary on Page 96 lists a bunch of nouns. Notice some of the nouns are preceded with an asterisk *. These are special third-declension nouns known as i- stem nouns.
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

4. Chapter 14 Third Declension i-stem Nouns
Some of these nouns are: animal, animālis, n.: infāns, infantis, m/f.: baby nāvis, nāvis, f.: ship parēns, parentis, m/f.: parents
animal
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

5. Chapter 14 Third Declension i-stem Nouns
Your Latin Dictionary contains three pieces of information for every noun:
mare, maris, n.: father
urbs, urbis, f.: city
The first form or nominative singular
The second form or genitive singular
This is used to find the noun stem and to determine which declension (or noun family) the noun belongs.
The gender : masculine, feminine, or neuter.
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

6. Chapter 14 Third Declension i-stem Nouns
Nouns are divided into declensions. Latin has five noun declensions. Declensions can be recognized by the genitive case singular – the second form personal endings.
flamma, flammae, f.: flame 1st Declension
equus, equī, m.: horse 2nd Declension
rēx, rēgis, m.: king 3rd Declension
nox, noctis, f.: night 3rd Declension i-stem
The genitive singular of all secūndae declension nouns ends in –ī (long i).
The genitive singular of all tertiae declension nouns ends in –is.
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

7. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension i-stem Nouns
Remember how we found the stem of 1st Declension (prīmae declension) nouns? We took the genitive singular and removed the ending (–ae). fēmina, fēminae, f. fēminae → fēmin -ae = fēmin We do the same with second declension. Let’s look at the next slide…
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

8. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension i-stem Nouns
To find the stem of any 3rd Declension noun – normal or i- stem - take the genitive singular and remove the –is. corpus, corporis, m. corporis → corpor -is = corpor pars, partis, f. partis → part -is = part Now, with the stem, we add the case endings and decline the noun. Look….
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

9. 3rd Declension Case Endings – Masculine & Feminine
Sing.
Plural
Nominative
rēx
rēgēs
uxor
uxorēs
Genitive
rēgis
rēgum
uxōris
uxōrum
Dative
rēgī
rēgibus
uxōrī
uxōribus
Accusative
rēgem
uxōrem
Ablative
rēge
uxōrē
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

10. 3rd Declension Case Endings – Masculine & Feminine i-stem
Sing.
Plural
Nominative
finis
fīnēs
nox
noctēs
Genitive
fīnium
noctis
noctium
Dative
finī
fīnibus
noctī
noctibus
Accusative
fīnem
noctem
Ablative
fine
nocte
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

11. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension – i-stem Neuter
Tertiae Declension Nouns may also be neuter. Naturally, the endings are determined by the neuter rules.
Who can tell me the neuter rules?
The nominative and accusative endings are the same.
3rd – Declension singular end in –us, -ut, or –r.
3rd – Declension plural end in –a.
2) The nominative and accusative plural end in –a.
Chapter 2 Verbs, Vocabulary, and 1st Conjugation

12. 3rd Declension i-stem noun Endings – Neuter
Case
Sing.
Plural
Nominative
animal
animala
Genitive
animālis
animalium
Dative
animalī
animalibus
Accusative
animalem
Ablative
animale
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13. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension – i-stem Nouns
I-Stem Nouns follow three patterns. Two patterns apply to the masculine and feminine nouns and the remaining pattern applies solely to neuter nouns.
Nominative singular ends in –is or –es AND nominative and genitive singular have same number of syllables.
e.g. finis, finis
Nominative singular ends in –s or –x AND the stem ends in a double consonant.
e.g. urbs, urbis
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14. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension – i-stem Nouns
The third pattern applies only to neuter nouns.
Neuter nouns that end in –al, -ar, or –e.
e.g. mare, maris
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15. Chapter 14 Tertiae Declension i-stem Nouns
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