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In this lesson you will:

  • Become familiar with the characteristics of Latin adjectives.

  • Learn morphological categories of Latin adjectives.

  • Learn how to find the stem and the declension of adjectives.

  • Learn how to make grammatical agreement of adjectives with nouns.

This lesson is divided into the following sections:

  1. Introduction.

  2. The 1st group of adjectives.

  3. The 2nd group of adjectives.

  4. Adjectives of one form for all genders.

  5. Agreement of adjectives and nouns.

  6. Exercises.

  7. Vocabulary

I. Introduction

Adjective is a word expressing a quality of a thing: major (large), longus (long), frontālis (frontal).

In all Latin terms the position of adjectives is after the noun with which it has grammatical agreement.

According to their endings all Latin adjectives can be divided into two groups: the first and the second group.

II. The 1st group of adjectives

The adjectives of the 1st group have different forms for every gender:

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Nominative

longus

longa

longum

Genitive

longi

longae

longi

These adjectives are declined on the pattern of the 1st and 2nd declensions. They have identical Nominative and Genitive forms with nouns: masculine –us (-i), feminine –a (-ae), neuter –um (-i).

Their dictionary form consists of three components:

  1. adjective in the masculine form;

  2. the feminine ending;

  3. the neuter ending.

E.g.: transversus, a, um (transverse); internus, a, um (internal); profundus, a, um (profound).

The stem of the 1st group adjectives is obtained from the Nominative form by removing the gender ending:

  • longus

stem: long-

  • transversum

stem: transvers-

  • externa

stem: extern-

The adjectives ending in –er fall also into this adjective group. In the anatomical terminology only some of them are used:

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Dictionary Form

English

dexter

dextra

dextrum

dexter, tra, trum

right

sinister

sinistra

sinistrum

sinister, tra, trum

left

liber

libĕra

libĕrum

liber, ĕra, ĕrum

free

ruber

rubra

rubrum

ruber, bra, brum

red

As for the stem of adjectives with the ending - er in masculine it is obtained from the Nominative form by removing the feminine ending.

Dictionary Form

Feminine

Stem

dexter, tra, trum

dextra

dextr-

sinister, tra, trum

sinistra

sinistr-

ruber, bra, brum

rubra

rubr-

liber, ĕra, ĕrum

libĕra

liber-