- What are the 4th declension neuter nouns in Latin?
- What are the 4th declension neuter Latin endings?
- What is the 4th declension in Latin?
- What are 4th declension words?
What are the 4th declension neuter nouns in Latin?
The following are the only 4th Declension neuter nouns: cornū, -ūs, horn genū, -ūs, knee gelū, -ūs, frost, chill pecū, -ūs, herd, flock verū, -ūs, spit, tip of javelin specus, -ūs, cave (also masc. and fem.)
What are the 4th declension neuter Latin endings?
Fourth declension also includes a very few neuter nouns. Here are the endings for the neuter:- u, -us, -u, -u, -u (I just love saying those); -ua, -uum, -ibus, -ua, -ibus.
What is the 4th declension in Latin?
Latin words of the fourth declension are generally masculines or, less commonly, feminines in -us and neuters in -ū. The genitive is in -ūs. The dative-ablative plural -ibus may appear less commonly as -ubus.
What are 4th declension words?
A few 4th declension nouns appear unchanged in English: status, sinus, census, consensus, hiatus, apparatus. If you should want to pluralize any of these words in English, and you mean to follow Latin practice, you will not change the word in spelling—the Latin plural of census is census.