User:Urszag/Latin-noun-categories

Ideas for new, more detailed system for categorizing Latin noun lemmas according to their inflection class.

The lowest category levels will be systematically split by gender and declension, as in the current setup, but also by further splits for morphological subcategories of declensions and for common vs. proper nouns.

1st declension

User:Urszag/first-declension-categories

2nd declension

User:Urszag/second-declension-categories

3rd declension

User:Urszag/third-declension-categories

4th declension (only 467 total)

4th declension base-level categories

• Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension (~420)
  • common nouns: e.g. actus, apparatus
  • very small number of proper nouns: Iesus, which is quite irregular (also Iesus Christus), some compound terms/names like Argous Portus, Geraesticus portus, Spiritus Sanctus, Status Uniti Americae (plural-only)
• Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension with nominative singular in -us (18)
  • Complete list: acus, anus, cryptoporticus, manus, nurus, porticus, pronurus, prosocrus, quercus, socrus, tribus; sometimes specus;
    • variable declension: colus, domus (irregular), domus equestris, ficus, penus, pinus, spinus
• Latin feminine plural-only nouns in the fourth declension (2)
  • only īdūs/ Īdūs and Quīnquātrūs
• Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension with Greek-type nominative singular in -o (1)
  • echo only common noun, it seems; proper nouns Aello, Argo, Callisto, Calypso, Clio, Dido, Enyo, Io, Manto, Pytho, Sappho, Themisto
  • Categorizing these as fourth declension is somewhat questionable.
• Latin neuter nouns in the fourth declension (~6):
  • only 6: cornu, gelu, genu, pecu, testu, veru? (some sources also mention tonitru)

4th declension supercategories

• Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
• Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension
• Latin neuter nouns in the fourth declension (only one subcategory)

5th declension (only 76 total)

5th declension base-level categories

• Latin masculine common nouns in the fifth declension (~1)
  • pretty much just dies, along with derived phrases like dies Iovis which could be argued to be proper nouns
• Latin masculine proper nouns in the fifth declension (~1)
  • only Hercules?
• Latin feminine common nouns in the fifth declension
  • res and various -ies nouns such as acies, superficies...
• Latin feminine proper nouns in the fifth declension
  • only Fides?

Splitting out proper nouns isn't very useful for the fifth declension.

5th declension supercategories

• Latin masculine nouns in the fifth declension
• Latin feminine nouns in the fifth declension

Indeclinable nouns (325 total)

masculine base-level categories

• Latin masculine indeclinable common nouns
  • few examples, but e.g. corban, seraphim
• Latin masculine indeclinable proper nouns
  • e.g. Aaron

feminine base-level categories

• Latin feminine indeclinable common nouns
  • e.g. de and other letter names
• Latin feminine indeclinable proper nouns
  • e.g. Chanaan

neuter base-level categories

• Latin neuter indeclinable common nouns
  • e.g. alcali
• Latin neuter indeclinable common nouns defective in all but the nominative and accusative singular
  • e.g. fas, instar, hir, nihil
• Latin neuter indeclinable proper nouns
  • e.g. Aruci