§51. Case-Forms in the Second Declension
The following, not having e in the stem, insert it in the nominative singular and are declined like ager (§ 47):—
| ager, field, stem agro-; | coluber, snake; | magister, master; |
| aper, boar; | conger, sea eel; | minister, servant; |
| arbiter, judge; | culter, knife; | oleaster, wild olive; |
| auster, south wind; | faber, smith; | onager (-grus), wild ass; |
| cancer, crab; | fiber, beaver; | scomber (-brus), mackerel. |
| caper, goat; | liber, book; |
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.