Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 96

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

view as XML

[*] 96. Nouns of the Fifth Declension are declined as follows:—

rēs , F., thing	diēs, M., day	fidēs, F., faith
STEM rē-	STEM diē-	STEM fidē-

[*] Note.--The ē of the stem is shortened in the genitive and dative singular of fidēs, spēs , rēs , but in these it is found long in early Latin. In the accusative singular e is always short.

		SINGULAR
				CASE-ENDINGS
NOM.	rēs	diēs	fidēs	-ēs
GEN.	rĕī	diēī (di ē ）	fidĕī	-ēī (-ē）
DAT.	rĕī	diēī (di ē ）	fidĕī	-ēī (-ē）
ACC.	rem	diem	fidem	-em
ABL.	rē	diē	fidē	-ē
		PLURAL
NOM.	rēs	diēs		-ēs
GEN.	rērum	diērum		-ērum
DAT.	rēbus	diēbus		-ēbus
ACC.	rēs	diēs		ēs
ABL.	rēbus	diēbus		-ēbus

Gender in the Fifth Declension

Ginn and Company, 1903.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

view as XML