Chapter 063Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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In Neuter nouns with liquid or nasal stems the Nominative is the same as the stem.
Exceptions:
Stems in
in-
have
e
instead of
i
in the nominative: as in
nōmen
, stem
nōmin-
.
Most stems in
er-
and
or-
have
-us
in the nominative: as,
genus
, stem
gener-
.
These were originally
s-
stems (cf. § 15
. 4).