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For questions about declension—the inflection of Latin nouns and adjectives to mark grammatical features such as case and number.
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Do common nominative adjective endings also work with neuter nouns?
I'll keep it very simple: no, the neuter (nom./acc.) of comparatives always ends on -(i)us.
pirum minus "the smaller pear (of two), a pear smaller (than some other)"
pirum maius
pirum vetustius
Note …
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Why does Latin not have an instrumental case?
I'm not sure there is more of a "why" to it than the fact that, in Latin, the ablative mostly absorbed the Proto-Indo-European instrumental's functions as the latter disappeared, just as the Greek dat …
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Syntax of *heptaplomeres*
An adjective on -meres made me think it must be from μέρος "part". And I wouldn't be surprised if an adjective like that were of the ψευδής type, which has a neuter singular on -ές (Latinised -es). Th …
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Nepos' Themistocles: ut ingratis omnes ad depugnandum cogerentur?
It is a contraction of ingratiis, which means "against (their) will", from ingratia "thanklessness". Ingratiis looks like an ablative to me. Lewis & Short mention your passage.
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Can a noun have more than one preposition?
Your translation is correct. I, too, would repeat the noun.
As mentioned in this other question, it is very rare to find a noun governed by two prepositions. And I was unable to find such a construct …
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What case does 'plus' take?
The adjective plus means "more". If you want to say more than, you can either use the (often elliptical) conjunction quam, or an ablative of comparison.
[Ego] habeo plura capita quam homines [capita …
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Is -um (instead of -ōrum) a typical genitive plural ending outside of poetry?
I believe it is also used in prose with certain words, like deum and virum, although it is indeed less common. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita V 14.4:
... pestilentiam agris urbique [esse] inlatam haud du …
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Accusative equals nominative for neuter words – how universal is this and why?
I believe there are no exceptions to this rule. That's what I have always read, and I have never encountered any, neither in Greek nor in Latin, nor even in German.
There is an hypothesis about the c …
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