§145. Possessive Pronouns
The Possessive pronouns are:—
| FIRST | PERSON. | meus, my | noster, our |
| SECOND | PERSON. | tuus, thy, your | vester, your |
| THIRD | PERSON. | suus, his, her, its | suus, their |
These are really adjectives of the First and Second Declensions, and are so declined (see §§ 110-112). But meus has regularly mī (rarely meus) in the vocative singular masculine.
a. Emphatic forms in -pte are found in the ablative singular: suōpte.
b. A rare possessive cûius ( quôius), -a, -um, whose, is formed from the genitive singular of the relative or interrogative pronoun (quī, quis). It may be either interrogative or relative in force according to its derivation, but is usually the former.
c. The reciprocals one another and each other are expressed by inter sē or alter ... alterum:—
- alter alterīus ōva frangit, they break each other's eggs (one ... of the other).
- inter sē amant, they love one another (they love among themselves).
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.