genus – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of genus

Noun: genus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singulargenus
Pluralgenera

Genitive

Singulargeneris
Pluralgenerum

Dative

Singulargenerī
Pluralgeneribus

Accusative

Singulargenus
Pluralgenera

Ablative

Singulargenere
Pluralgeneribus

Vocative

Singulargenus
Pluralgenera

Sample Sentences

  • huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae. (For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 26.1]
  • omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque / et genus aequoreum pecudes pictaeque volucres / in furias ignemque ruunt (So far does every race on earth of man and beast, / whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged, / collapse into the frenzies and the fire [of sex].) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon III]
  • 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: PL 70 (Migne), col. 1225 (Nouns have six genders: masculine, e.g. hic Cato 'this man Cato'; feminine, e.g. haec musa 'this muse'; neuter, e.g. hoc monile 'this necklace'; common to two genders, e.g. hic et haec sacerdos 'this priest or priestess'; of three genders, e.g. hic, et haec, et hoc felix 'this lucky man, woman or thing'; epicene, called promiscous in Latin, e.g. passer 'sparrow', aquila 'eagle'.)
  • Genera nominum, septem sunt. Masculinum, cui praeponitur hic: ut hic Dominus. Foemineum, cui praeponitur haec: ut haec musa. Neutrum, cui praeponuntur hoc: ut hoc templum. Commune, cui praeponuntur hic, & haec: ut hic, & haec Sacerdos. Omne, cui praeponuntur hic, haec, hoc, vel per tres varias voces inflectitur: ut hic, haec, hoc felix, bonus, bona, bonum. Dubium, quod modo masculinum, modo faemineum, apud Oratores etiam invenitur: ut hic, vel haec dies. Promiscuum, in quo sexus uterque per alterum apparet: ut hic passer, haec aquila, hic lepus. (Nouns have seven genders. Masculine, which you can precede with hic: hic dominus 'this Lord'. Feminine, which you can precede with haec, e.g. haec musa 'this muse'. Neuter, which you can precede with hoc, e.g. hoc templum 'this temple'. Common, which you can precede with hic and haec: hic & haec sacerdos 'this male or female priest'. Universal, which you can precede with all three of hic, haec, hoc, or which vary in three forms, e.g. hic, haec, hoc felix 'this lucky man, woman, thing', hic bonus, haec bona, hoc bonum 'this good man, good woman, good thing'. Doubtful, which in the orators can be found to be sometimes masculine, sometimes feminine, e.g. hic, vel haec dies 'this day'. Promiscuous, in which a gender appears instead of another, e.g. hic passer 'this sparrow' (always masculine), haec aquila 'this eagle' (always feminine), hic lepus 'this rabbit' (always masculine).) [16th century, Andreas Semperius (a.k.a. Andreas Sampere, Andreu Sempere): Andreae Semperii Valentini Alcodiani, doctoris medici, prima grammaticae latinae institutio tribus libris explicata, Majorca/Mallorca, 1819, p.19]
  • Genera verborum quot sunt? Quinque. Quae? Activa passiva neutra deponentia communia. (How many types of verbs are there? Five. Which ones? Active, passive, neuter, deponent, common.) [mid 4th c. CE, Aelius Donatus, Ars Minor De Verbo]
  • Verborum genera quinque sunt, activa passiva neutra communia deponentia. (There are five types of verbs: active, passive, neuter, common, deponent.) [Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentarius in Artem Donati]

Nouns inflected like genus

scelus, vīscus, subgenus, quadrilatus, genus, latus, holus, fūnus, mūnus, ulcus, sīdus, rūdus, foedus, glomus, pondus, vulnus, vellus, volnus, onus, olus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
5. Proto-Italic *genos
6. Latin genus
7. From Proto-Italic *genos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os n (“race”), from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”); compare also gēns, gignō and -gnus, from the same root. The genitive gener-is (< PIE *ǵénh₁es-os) displays the sound shift -r- < intervocalic *-s-, through which the Old Latin form *genes-is can be reconstructed.
8. Cognates include Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, stock, kin, kind”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “race, class of beings”), Proto-Celtic *genos (“birth; family”), and English kin. Doublet of genea. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'γένος', English Nouns 'kin'.

Verbs referencing "genus"

English Nouns gender, English Nouns genus, Dutch Nouns genus, Finnish Nouns genus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns genus, Swedish Nouns genus, English Nouns generic, English Nouns genre, French Nouns genre, Icelandic Nouns kyn, Romanian Nouns gen, Italian Nouns genere, Ancient Greek Nouns γένος, Old English Nouns cynn, Galician Nouns xénero, Danish Nouns køn, Bulgarian Nouns жанр, Hungarian Nouns genocídium, Irish Nouns seánra, Catalan Nouns gènere, Irish Nouns géineas, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kjønn, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kjønn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns intetkjønn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hunkjønn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hankjønn, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hankjønn, German Nouns Genus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjanger, Dutch Nouns toongeslacht, Galician Nouns xendra, Bulgarian Nouns джендър.

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