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Latin from scratch course › #7: Fourth and fifth declensions › #7.16: Fifth declension

Latin from scratch #7.16: The fifth declension

In the sixteenth class of the Latin from Scratch course, we’ll study the fifth declension, so we finish with declensions. There are not many nouns in the fifth declension and they are not so frequent except for a few of them. We’ll only find one type.

Contents

  • Morphology of the fifth declension
  • Some nouns of the fifth declension

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Morphology of the fifth declension

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We already know that the nouns of the fifth declension are those in whose statement we can see that the genitive ends in ‑ei.

nom. sg.diēsnom. pl.diēs
voc. sg.diēsvoc. pl.diēs
ac. sg.diĕmac. pl.diēs
gen. sg.diēīgen. pl.diērŭm
dat. sg.diēīdat. pl.diēbŭs
ab. sg.diēab. pl.diēbŭs

All the nouns are feminine. The only exception is dies, diei (and its compound meridies, meridiei), which is masculine with the wider meaning of ‘day (period of time)’ and feminine with the more specific meaning of ‘appointed day, date’.

Some nouns of the fifth declension

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There aren’t many nouns in the fifth declension. However, some of them are worth memorizing:

  • dies, diei — day
  • res, rei — thing, matter
  • spes, spei — hope
  • species, speciei — appearance, aspect
  • facies, faciei — appearance, shape

Now we are done learning declensions! Since neither the fourth nor the fifth declension have adjectives, we can go already to the texts corresponding to this new knowledge, with all types of nouns!

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Course content

  1. Quick start
  2. Introduction
  3. Cases and their functions
  4. The five declensions
  5. First declension
  6. Verbal conjugation
  7. Present tense
  8. Second declension
  9. 2-1-2 adjectives
  10. Imperfect past tense
  11. Future tense
  12. Third declension nouns
  13. Third declension adjectives
  14. Perfect past tense
  15. Adverbials of place
  16. Fourth declension
  17. Fifth declension
  18. Pluperfect tense
  19. Possessives
  20. Personal pronouns
  21. Apposition
  22. Predicative complement
  23. Present subjunctive
  24. Imperfect subjunctive
  25. Perfect subjunctive
  26. Perfect future indicative
  27. Pluperfect subjunctive
  28. Syntax of cum
  29. Syntax of ut & ne
  30. Comparison of adjectives
  31. Superlative adjectives
  32. Adverbs from adjectives
  33. Demonstratives
  34. Relative clauses
  35. Passive voice
  36. Deponent verbs
  37. Relative time
  38. Participles: morphology
  39. Participles: syntax
  40. Infinitives
  41. Compounds of sum
  42. Irregular verbs
  43. Imperative

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