§155. Noun and Adjective Forms
The following Noun and Adjective forms are also included in the inflection of the Latin Verb:—
a. Four Participles,1 viz.:—
Active: the Present and Future Participles.
Passive: the Perfect Participle and the Gerundive.2
b. The Gerund: this is in form a neuter noun of the second declension, used only in the oblique cases of the singular.
c. The Supine: this is in form a verbal noun of the fourth declension in the accusative (-um) and dative or ablative (-ū)3 singular.
Signification of the Forms of the Verb
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.