§37. Declension of Nouns
Nouns are inflected in five Declensions, distinguished by the final letter (characteristic) of the Stem, and by the case-ending of the Genitive Singular.
| DECL. 1 | CHARACTERISTIC ā | GEN. SING. ae |
| 2 | ŏ | ī |
| 3 | ĭ or a Consonant | ĭs |
| 4 | ŭ | ūs |
| 5 | ē | ēī |
a. The Stem of a noun may be found, if a consonant stem, by omitting the case-ending; if a vowel stem, by substituting for the case-ending the characteristic vowel.
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.