dorsum – Latin noun declension

Noun: dorsum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	dorsum
Plural	dorsa

Genitive

Singular	dorsī
Plural	dorsōrum

Dative

Singular	dorsō
Plural	dorsīs

Accusative

Singular	dorsum
Plural	dorsa

Ablative

Singular	dorsō
Plural	dorsīs

Vocative

Singular	dorsum
Plural	dorsa

Sample Sentences

Trīs Notus abreptās in saxa latentia torquet —
saxa vocant Italī mediīs quae in flūctibus ārās —
dorsum immāne marī summō [...].
Three [ships] were taken away [by] the Southwind, hurled into hidden rocks – rocks the Italians call the Altars, which [are] in the middle of the waves – a vast reef near the surface of the sea. ((This “vast reef” or “huge ridge” posed a hidden danger; understood more imaginatively, a “monstrous spine” of rock destroyed the ships. Notus was the Greek south wind.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.108–110]
Quae ab situ porrectae in dorso urbis Longa Alba appellata (This [new city] was named Alba Longa, from its position, as it lay stretched out along the ridge) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita I.3]

Nouns inflected like dorsum

palmētum, miliardum, rēctangulum, bactērium, frūctum, melimēlum, scītum, scūtum, lanthanum, sertum, sacrum, pentaptōtum, dēcrēmentum, sorbum, fundibulum, alphabētum, siglum, signum, flābrum, nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dorsom, probably derived from deorsum (“downwards”) < *dēvorsum, with a semantic shift from "turned away from" > "back". Ramat notes that the two terms' contemporaneous use suggests that one was not a phonetic development of the other; however, De Vaan explains this as a case of lexical differentiation in the written and by extension spoken forms. A potential connection with a Proto-Celtic *dros-man, giving Old Irish druimm (“back, ridge”), is unclear.

Verbs referencing "dorsum"

French Nouns dos, Romanian Nouns dos, Italian Nouns dorso, Portuguese Nouns dorso, Spanish Nouns dorso, Catalan Nouns dors, English Nouns dossard, French Nouns dossard, English Nouns extrados, English Nouns parados, Italian Nouns dosso, Portuguese Nouns dosso, English Nouns dorse.