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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.