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Rh |§ 269. Greek Nouns.—A few Greek Nouns in -ōs, mostly geographical, belong to this declension, and sometimes make Acc. in -ŏn instead of -um, as Dēl-ŏs, A. Dēl-ŏn (-um in prose).


 * § 270. Words ending in -vus (and -ŭus), -vum (and -uum).—In the earlier Latin [see §259(1) ]these often have -ŏs instead of -ŭs, and -om' instead of -um in the Nom. and Ace. Sing.

Thus Nom. ĕqu-ŏs a horse, Acc, ĕqu-om; N., salv-ŏs (m.) safe. Ace, salv-om; Nom. M. mortu-ŏs dead, Neut. mortŭ- om. [cu is often written for quu, as ĕcus, A. ĕcum.]

§ 271. ''Acc. Sing, in'' -im.—Some Nouns with Nom. in -ĭs have -im instead of -em in Acc. Sing. Thus :

(a) Names of Rivers as Tĭbĕrĭm; Greek proper names as Neāpŏlim, Phălărim; and names of Animals and some other words taken from the Greek, as tigrim tiger, băsim 'pedestal.

(b) The following regularly:

sĭtim, tussira, vim, sĕcurirm, puppim, turrirm, also būrim.

Sometimes other Nouns :

In febris oft; but seldom nāvis, sēmentis, pelvis, restis, clāvis.

§ 272. ''Abl. Sing, in'' -ī.—Some.Nouns have an Abl. Sing, in -ī answering to the Acc. in -im. It is rarely found outside of Nouns in -ĭs. We have it regularly in:

tussī, vī, sĕcurī, canālī, sĭtī, strĭgĭlī, with sodālī.

Further it appears in the following words (those in italics having it rarely):

fūstis, febris, turris, nāvis, puppis, pelvis, cīvis, clāvis, sēmentis, īgnis, amnis, orbis, anguis, unguis, clāssis, corbis, With bĭlls, fĭnis: frequently In imbrĭ, sŭpellēctĭlī.