Expertlatin
What is declining in Latin?
Etymology. From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”), from de (“down”) + clīnō (“I bend, I incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).
How do you decline death in Latin?
The word dies is a fifth declension noun and as such is regarded to be feminine. In the order of nominative, accusative, genitive, dative then abalative cases in the singular form, dies declines as follows: dies, diem, diei, diei, die.
How do Latin adjectives decline?
Like nouns, adjectives in Latin are declined. The vast majority take either the first and second declension (antiquus -a -um) or the third declension (ferox, ferocis). All such adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number, and case.
