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PREPARATIONS
§34- XII. Alliance of the British tribes.
societas alliance flnis, 3 * end
(societat-), 3 [society] fines, Plur., m. boundaries
summus, a, um chief separ5 I separate
imperium, 2 command oriens(orient-), 3 the East
mando / entrust [orient-al]
rex (reg-), 3 ki^ig occidens the IVest
gens (gent-), 3 race [gentilc] (occident-), 3 [occident-alj
Gen. PJ. gentium superior previous, past
princeps (-cip- , 3 prince (superior-), 3
tamen nevertheless conlinuus, a, um continued, un-
pars (part), 3 part interrupted
consocio I ally inftnltus, a, um infinite
- Declined like ' navis,' § 32.
t'aboriente' is WtexMy from the East ; hence on the East side, on the East. Similarly, 'ab occidente,' on the VVest.
Third Declension — Continued.
Words whose stem ends in two consonants form the Genitive Plural in iutn (two syllables more than the Nom. Sing.): thus 'gens' (stem 'gent-') race, 'pars' ('part-'), /ar/.
Notice that if the stem ends in a /, it is dropped before the s which is added to form the Nominative Singular, as in § 29 ; thus ' gens ' stands for ' gent-s ' ; ' pars ' for ' part-s.'
The Nouns whose stem ends in two consonants are mostly feminme, hke other Nouns that form the Nominative Singular by adding s to the stem (§ 29).
SIXGULAR.
PLURAL.
1,2 3 4 5 6
gen-8 gent-em gent-is gent-I cnm gent-e
gent-Ss gent Sb gent-ium gent-ibuB cum gent-ibus
But 'urbs' (stem 'urb-'), city, which will be found in the next section, does not drop any letter before the s of the Nominative Singular ; it is only a / or a ^ that is dropped before ihe s.
