Re: [Lingo] Re: [tlug] Mystical tabbing events

[David Santinoli <marauder@example.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:40:36PM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> On 17/03/2008, David Santinoli <marauder@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > It has plenty of them.  Civis (citizen), vis (strength), sanguis
> >  (blood), canis (dog) etc.
> 
> So how do you form the plural for those? What declension are they?

Third declension.  Nominative plural is usually formed via s/is$/es/
(watch out for exceptions: for example, "vis" becomes "vires" and
"sanguis" has no plural form).

Cheers
 David
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