§41. FIRST DECLENSION (ā-STEMS)
Latin nouns of the First Declension are thus declined:—
| stella, F., star | |||
| STEM stellā- | |||
| SINGULAR | CASE-ENDINGS | ||
| NOM. | stella | a star | -a |
| GEN. | stellae | of a star | -ae |
| DAT. | stellae | to or for a star | -ae |
| ACC. | stellam | a star | -am |
| ABL. | stellā | with, from, by, etc. a star | -ā |
| PLURAL | |||
| NOM. | stellae | stars | -ae |
| GEN. | stellārum | of stars | -ārum |
| DAT. | stellīs | to or for stars | -īs |
| ACC. | stellās | stars | -ās |
| ABL. | stellīs | with, from, by, etc. stars | -īs |
a. The Latin has no article; hence stella may mean a star, the star, or simply star.
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.