PREPARATIONS
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Nouns of ihe ^rd Declension that forni the Nominative Singular by adding s to the stem are mostly feminine, except those which denote male persons, hke 'miles,' so/cfur, and a few others.
§30.
X. Varied contests.
certamen
con/esi
tempus
time
(cerlamin-), 3 *
(tempor-), 3 *
[tempor-ary]
vlto
I avoid
agger, 3
tnound
fluwen
river
testudo (teslu-
tortoise-she//^
(flumin-), 3*
din-), 3
shelter f
egregie
excellenily
oppugno
/ attack
opus (oper-), 3 *
work [oper-ate]
vulnus
woutid
firmo
/ strengthen
(vulner-), 3 *
[vulner able]
[make firm]
pondus
weight
nomen
name
(ponder-), 3*
[ponder-able]
(nomin-), 3*
[nomin-ate]
arma
arms
constat
is known
(neut. phir.).
2
domesticus, a um
civil
supero
/ surpass
[domestic]
magnitudo
size, magnitude
prae-paro
I prepare
(magnitudin-).
3
arbor, 3, /f/«.
tree
robur
sfrength
vallum, 2
rampart
(robor-), 3 *
[cor-robor-ate]
pro-volo
I dashforth
corpus
body
cf volito, §7
(corpor-), 3*
[corpor-al]
niunitio, 3
l?n/wark
homo(homin-), 3
man
ahquanlum
a /ot, a consider
robusto cor-
of (ht. witJi)
ah/e amoimt.
porej
robust body
• The nouns in thk section in men, us, and ur are Neuters, and therefof" have the Accusative ihe same as the Nwininalive. Note, too, ike Nominalive and Accusative plurai in a.
tThe testuJo was an arrangement of the shields of the soldiers when thcy atlackcii a fort ; it looked like a tortoisc-sheli.
J Note the Ablative without a Prepositson, here translatable by 'of ; the AMative here dcnotes a qualily of the persons spoken of, and may be iherefore callcd an Adjectival AWative.
Third Declension— rc«//««(r^.
NouNS LiKE 'Flumkn,' ' Opus,' Tempus.' Ncutcrs ending in 7}ien have stems cnding in ;;////- from whit h the other cases are formcd. Neutcrs ending in us have stems in er- or or-. The last vowel of these stems is aiways short.
