exemplum – Latin noun declension

Noun: exemplum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	exemplum
Plural	exempla

Genitive

Singular	exemplī
Plural	exemplōrum

Dative

Singular	exemplō
Plural	exemplīs

Accusative

Singular	exemplum
Plural	exempla

Ablative

Singular	exemplō
Plural	exemplīs

Vocative

Singular	exemplum
Plural	exempla

Sample Sentences

esse in exemplō (to serve as a warning)

Nouns inflected like exemplum

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

1. Ultimately from eximō (“to take out, take away”), itself from ex + emō. Hypothesized to go back to *exem-lom, with epenthesis turning *-ml- into -mpl-; another possible example of this change is amplus. However, Leumann 1977 argues the use of voiceless -p- rather than voiced -b- as the epenthetic consonant is unusual, and suggests it may have been influenced somehow by exēmptus. Compare templum.
2. Possibly compare also instrument nouns ending in -ulum, such as capulum, dēcipulum, speculum. It is debated whether the ending in these comes from pre-Latin *-elom, the neuter form of the agent noun suffix *-elos (Classical Latin -ulus), or from the Proto-Indo-European instrument noun suffix *-tlom (which normally became Latin -culum, but which may have alternatively developed to -ulum after stop consonants).

Verbs referencing "exemplum"

English Nouns example, Spanish Nouns ejemplo, English Nouns sample, Dutch Nouns exempel, Swedish Nouns exempel, English Nouns exemplar, Swedish Nouns exemplar, Catalan Nouns exemple, French Nouns exemple, Italian Nouns esempio, Asturian Nouns exemplu, Romanian Nouns exemplu, Galician Nouns exemplo, Portuguese Nouns exemplo, German Nouns Exempel, Italian Nouns scempio, Danish Nouns eksempel, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns eksempel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns eksempel, Irish Nouns sampla, Middle English Nouns saumple, Middle English Nouns exaumple.