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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 1st Declension Nominative ending of –a Genitive ending of –ae
Mostly feminine
Examples: via, viae, f.
culīna, culīnae, f.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.