Attention!!!

- In the anatomical terminology there is only a limited number of

masculines of the fourth declension. You should remember some of them as follows:

 arcus, us m arch
 ductus, us m duct
 meātus, us m tract, passage
 processus, us m process
 sinus, us m sinus; hollow
 textus, us m tissue
Remember the endings of Nominative and Genitive singular of all declensions:

Declension
I II III IV V
 Gender
f m n m f n m n f
Nominative
singular us um
endings a different us u es
er on
Genitive
singular ae i is us ēi
endings

STEM OF NOUNS

Dictionary Genitive Stem

form
crista, ae f crist - ae crist -
collum, i n coll – i coll -
facĭes, ēi f faci – ēi faci -
pars, partis f part – is part -
vomer, ěris m voměr - is voměr -
caput, ĭtis n capĭt - is capĭt -

THE 1ST GROUP OF ADJECTIVES

Masculine Feminine Neuter

Nomina
-tive longus longa longum
Genitive
longi longae longi

The adjectives ending in –er fall also into this adjective group. In the anatomical
terminology only some of them are used:

Dictionary
Masculine Feminine Neuter English
Form
dexter dextra dextrum dexter, tra, right
 trum
sinister, tra,
sinister sinistra sinistrum left
trum
liber, ĕra,
liber libĕra libĕrum free
ĕrum
ruber, bra,
ruber rubra rubrum red
brum

THE 2ND GROUP OF ADJECTIVES

Masc-ne Feminine Neuter

Nomina
frontālis frontālis frontāle
tive

Genitive Frontālis

Masculine Genitive Dictionary

Neuter English
& feminine form form
anterior, ius
anterior anterius anteriōris anterior
posterior, ius
posterior posterius posteriōris posterior
superior superius superiōris upper, superior superior, ius
 inferior, ius
inferior inferius inferiōris lower, inferior
great, greater,
major majus majōris major
major, jus
minor, us
small, lesser,
minor minus minōris minor
You should remember the adjectives in comparitive degree used in the anatomical terminology:

You should remember the adjectives in superlative degree used in the anatomical terminology:

 Latissĭmus, a, um broadest
Longissĭmus a, um longest
 Maxĭmus, a, um greatest
 Minĭmus, a, um least
 Suprēmus, a, um supreme

The Latin nouns have Nominative plural endings as follows:

Declen- 1 2 3 4 5
sion
Gender f m n m, f n m n F
Endings -ae -i -a -es -a -us -ŭa -es
-ĭa

The Latin adjectives have Nominative plural endings as follows:

Adjectives of
st
the 1 group + Adjectives in
Adjectives of
adjectives in the comparative
the 2nd group
the superlative degree
degree
m f n m, f n m, f n
 -i -ae -a -es -ĭa -es -a

Attention!!! - All neuter nouns irrespective of their declension as well as all

adjectives in the neuter form in Nominative plural end in –а (adjectives of the 2nd
group in -ĭa).

The Latin nouns have Genitive plural endings as follows:

Declension
1 2 3 4 5
Endings of ārum ōrum um ērum
Genitive um,
plural -ĭum