Questions tagged [declinatio-secunda]
For questions about the second declension.
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Best Latin Websites to learn/revise/practice tests
I was wondering what the best websites for (a) learning latin and (b) revising/doing practice tests are?
More specifically, I was wondering if anyone happened to have or know where I could find some ...
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How did vulgus get its ending?
Vulgus "crowd, mob, common people" is a neuter second-declension noun. But unlike most second-declension neuters, it ends in -us, like a masculine.
How did this happen? Is there an etymological ...
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What categories of substantives of the second declension are feminine?
Some categories of substantive nouns are always feminine, even when they are of the second declension, such as trees.
What other categories are there? And are there also many exocategorical examples? ...
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Forms of 2nd Declension Neuter Nouns ending in -ium
The 2nd Declension Neuter endings are:
Singular
Nom: -um
Gen: -ī
Dat: -ō
Acc: -um
Abl: -ō
Plural
Nom: -a
Gen: -ōrum
Dat: -īs
Acc: -a
Abl: -īs
With a word such as auxilium (meaning help, aid), which ...
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Wordplay with “Vox Populi” (populus, m vs. populus, f)
Say I want to mock up the idiom "Vox Populi" using not "populus" (m, people) but "populus" (f, poplar tree). Meaning something like "the sound of the poplar leaves rustling".
Do I have a way to ...
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What is the plural of virus, vulgus and pelagus?
There are three neuters in the second declension ending in -us: virus, vulgus and pelagus.
(See this previous question for origin and listing of such words.)
My grammar tells me that these words are ...
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Are there any other neuter words of the second declension that end on -us than “virus”?
Virus is a neuter word of the second declension even though it ends on -us, as evidenced by its genitive on -i (it has no plural). Are there any other such words?
Bonus question: is it possible that ...
