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3. Three-Word Terms

They may consist of:

  1. three nouns: ligamentum tubercŭli costae (ligament of tubercle of rib)

  2. a noun and two adjectives: processus articulāris superĭor (superior articular process)

  3. two nouns and an adjective: sulcus nervi spinālis (furrow of the spinal nerve)

4. Multiword Terms

They may consist of several nouns and adjectives in singular and plural:

Facĭes temporālis alae minōris ossis sphenoidālis (temporal surface of the smaller wing of the sphenoid bone).

III. Grammatical categories of a noun

The grammatical categories of a noun are as follows:

  1. Gender

  2. Number

  3. Case

  4. Declension

GENDER

There are three genders in Latin: masculine (masculīnum), feminine (feminīnum) and neuter (neutrum). In contrast to Latin English nouns have only a natural gender, i.e. according to their sex: nouns designating males are masculine (man, boy), nouns designating females are feminine (woman, girl), and nouns designating inanimates are in the neuter gender.

Latin nouns have grammatical gender. Their gender is determined by the ending of Nominative singular.

Thus, nouns ending in -a are feminine: scapŭla (shoulder blade), nouns ending in –us are masculine: muscŭlus (muscle), nouns ending in –um are neuter etc.

The genders of a noun are indicated in the dictionaries with the letters:

  • m - masculine

  • f - feminine

  • n – neuter

NUMBER

In common with English there are two numbers in Latin - singular (singulāris) and plural (plurālis). Number is the grammatical category showing whether we speak of one thing ore more than one. In English the plural is formed by the endings –s or –es. In Latin the ending of the plural varies according to the gender and declension:

Vertěbrae (vertebrae), nervi (nerves), corpŏra (bodies), facĭes (surfaces) etc.

CASE

Case is defined as the change of the noun form according to its relation to other words. In modern English we can speak about “common case” and “possessive case”. In contrast to English there are six cases in Latin, but only two cases are used in the anatomical terminology:

English

Latin and abbreviation

Nominative

Nominatīvus (Nom.)

Genitive

Genetīvus (Gen.)

Nominative indicates the subject and answers the questions who, what.

Genitive indicates the possession and answers the questions whose, of what.

IV. Dictionary form of a noun

You should learn Latin nouns in their “Dictionary Form”. The dictionary form of a noun consists of three components:

1. The full form of Nominative singular;

2. The Genitive singular ending;

3. The designation of gender (with the letters m, f, n).

E.g.: ala, ae f - wing;

sternum, i n - breast bone;

ductus, us m - duct.

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