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FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSIONS (á- AND o-STEMS).

110.

Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions (á- an o-stems) are declined in the Masculine like servus, puer, or ager in the Feminine like stella; and in the Neuter like bellum.



The regular type of an adjective of the First and Second Declensions is bonus, -a, -um, which is thus declined: -





bonus, bona, bonum, good

MASCULINE FEMININE
STEM bono- STEM boná- STEM bono-
SINGULAR NOM. bonus
GEN. boní bonae boní
DAT. bonó bonae bonó
ACC. bonum bonam bonum
ABL. bonó boná bonó


VOC.

bone bona bonum
PLURAL NOM. boní
GEN. bonórum bonárum bonórum
DAT. bonís bonís bonís
ACC. bonós bonás bona
ABL. bonís bonís bonís


NOTE: Stems in quo- have nominative -cus (-quos), -qua, -cum (-quom), accusative -cum (-quom), -quam, -cum (-quom), to avoid quu- (see §§ 6. b and 46. N. 2). Thus, -

NOM. propinous (-quos) propinqua propinoum (-quom)
GEN. propinquí propinquae propinquí, etc.
But most modern editions disregard this principle.



a. The Genitive Singular masculine of adjectives in -ius ends in -ií, and the Vocative in -ie; not in -í, as in nouns (cf. § 49. b, c); as, Lacedaemonius, -ií, -ie.



NOTE: The possessive meus, my, has the vocative masculine mí (cf. § 145).