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460. Nouns are inflected in five declensions, distinguished by the final letter of the stem and by the termination of the genitive singular.


 * Ā-stems, Gen. Sing. -ae


 * O-stems, Gen. Sing. -ī


 * Consonant stems and I-stems, Gen. Sing. -is


 * U-stems, Gen. Sing. -ūs


 * Ē-stems, Gen. Sing. -ē̆ī

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a. Dea and fīlia have the termination -ābus in the dative and ablative plural.