List Of Masculine Latin Nouns Of The 1st Declension
This is a list of masculine Latin nouns of the First Declension. Such nouns were a rather small percentage of the declension, and often were proper names. Most masculine common nouns of this group, though by no means all, carried a male association in ancient times. Other nouns in this declension were feminine; there were no neuters. The gender of (particularly) a common noun was and remains a grammatical phenomenon, technically independent of the actual sex of the thing described.
Ordinary nouns of the First Declension most often end in -a in the nominative, and -ae in the genitive. Many exceptions occur when the noun derives from Greek (e.g., nominative-genitive -e, -es or -ae; -es, -ae; and -as, -ae). Included for illustration are Attic Greek words for selected nouns.
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