Chapter 097Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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All nouns of the Fifth Declension are Feminine, except
diēs
(usually M.),
day
, and
merīdiēs
(M.),
noon.
Diēs
is sometimes feminine in the singular, especially in phrases indicating a fixed time, and regularly feminine when used of time in general: as,
cōnstitūtā diē
,
on a set day;longa diēs
,
a long time.