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§65. i-STEMS

Nouns of this class include—

Pure i-Stems: a.
Masculine and Feminine parisyllabic¹ nouns in -is and four in -er.
¹ I.e. having the same number of syllables in the nominative and genitive singular.
b.
Neuters in -e, -al, and -ar.
Mixed i-Stems, declined in the singular like consonant stems, the plural like i-stems.

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.