Chapter 031 Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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Names of Male beings, and of Rivers, Winds, Months, and Mountains, are masculine: — pater , father; Iūlius , Julius; Tiberis , the Tiber; auster , south wind; Iānuārius , January; Apennīnus , the Apennines. Names of Months are properly adjectives, the masculine noun mēnsis , month , being understood: as, Iānuārius , January.

A few names of Rivers ending in -a (as, Allia ), with the Greek names Lēthē and Styx , are feminine; others are variable or uncertain.

Some names of Mountains are feminine or neuter, taking the gender of their termination: as, Alpēs (F.), the Alps; Sōracte (N.).

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