PREPARATIONS
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So are declined words like 'aer,' air, 'sol,' sun^ and niany words ending in or, such as 'calor,' heat, 'splendor,' s/^Ietidour, 'imperator,' commande?--in-chief. So too are declined words like 'expeditio,' expedition, excfpt that they havc dropped an ' n ' in the Nominative Singular : thus we have — ■
.SINC.ULAR.
1, 2 expeditio
3 expeditidn em
4 expedition is
5 expedition I
6 in expedition e
PLURAL. expedition es expedition es expcditionum expedition ibus in expedition-ibus
(Many words ending in 0, especially those ending in ^/J and gOi have also a change of vowel in the stem : see next section, note).
Nouns of the ^rd Declension in io, do, or go are nearly all feminine, except when they denote male persons. The other nouns decHned hke Caesar are mostly masculine, especially those endins: in or.
venia pardon
a victor-ibus from the victors ullus, a, um any
(irregular in Gen.
and Dat. Sing.) nisi except ; cf. § 35
paucl, ae, a afeiv
proximus, a um next ; cf. § 16 miilto maior-em much greater, lit. grcater by much sescentl, ae, a six hundred onerarius, a, um of burden legion-es legions
cum multi- with a jnu/ti-
liidin-e* tudi
§28.
avaritia
avarice
exspectatio praeda cupidus, a, um
expectation booty ; cf. § 7 desirous
vlsitandi
of visiling
explorandl ignotus, a, um
of exploring unknoivn
remotus, a, um
remote
ignotum
pro (with Abl.)
an unknown
thing for, instead of
pro magnifico est is regarded as a
magjiificent
ihing com-par5 -^ g^^ together
re-porto I carry ojf
- Niite that thc stcm of this word diffcrs from the Numinative Singular iiot
only in having an n, but also in ihe change of vowel : Nominative Singular tnullitudo, stem mulliluJin-.
