Re: Re: FN-FORUM Font Virii Warning for Steve Laird

date posted 22nd January 2002 23:04

Er, don't go there, or I'll do it again. 3rd declension is rex, princeps,
miles and oratio--all the odd ones that go itis, ipis, ionis etc. Fourth are
the other ones with -us endings (like domus), but the nominative singular
and plural are the same.

Night!

Kathy
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> Yep, I agree!
>
> *Its all come flooding back*
>
> Declension - that was the word I was fumbling for! Was it a 2nd or 3rd
> declension was what I meant to say - ie was it like Dominus or Bellum - I
> was thinking that if it was already 3rd decelension plural - Virus then it
> should be Virum....
>
> Anyway....
>
> *I shall get my vestum*
>
> Alan
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> No. It would depend what declension it was. It's actually a rare second
> declension neuter noun, like pelagus and vulgus. Virus and vulgus DO NOT
> HAVE PLURALS. pelagus, the sea and cetus, a sea monster, do have plurals
> cete and pelage, so possibly you could use vire.
> Many people assume that everything ending in -us is second declension
> masculine, but it could quite easily be fourth declension feminine like
> domus (house/home).
> A second declension masculine noun virius (if there was one but there
isn't)
> could have the plural virii. Its plural also can't be viri, as that means
> "of a man" (could be the same thing??).
>
> No way can it gain an i after the stem in the nominative or accusative
> plural--it's just not Roman!
>
> Kathy
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> > Doesn't that depend on whether virus is masculine or neutral though,
> Kathy?
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