Adjectives of Three Terminations are thus declined:—
ācer
,
ācris
,
ācre
,
keen
, STEM
ācri-
|
|
SINGULAR |
|
|
PLURAL |
|
M. |
F. |
N. |
M. |
F. |
N. |
NOM. |
ācer |
ācr
is
|
ācr
e
|
ācr
ēs
|
ācr
ēs
|
ācr
ia
|
GEN. |
ācr
is
|
ācr
is
|
ācr
is
|
ācr
ium
|
ācr
ium
|
ācr
ium
|
DAT. |
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ibus
|
ācr
ibus
|
ācr
ibus
|
ACC. |
ācr
em
|
ācr
em
|
ācr
e
|
ācr
īs
(
-ēs
)
|
ācr
īs
(
-ēs
)
|
ācr
ia
|
ABL. |
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ī
|
ācr
ibus
|
ācr
ibus
|
ācr
ibus
|
Like
ācer
are declined the following stems in
ri-
:—
-
alacer
,
campester
,
celeber
,
equester
,
palūster
,
pedester
,
puter
,
salūber
,
silvester
,
terrester
,
volucer
. So also names of months in
-ber
: as,
Octōber
(cf. §
66
).
This formation is comparatively late, and hence, in the poets and in early Latin, either the masculine or the feminine form of these adjectives was sometimes used for both genders: as,
coetus alacris
(Enn.). In others, as
faenebris
,
fūnebris
,
illūstris
,
lūgubris
,
mediocris
,
muliebris
, there is no separate masculine form at all, and these are declined like
levis
(§
116
).
Celer
,
celeris
,
celere
,
swift
, has the genitive plural
celerum
, used only as a noun, denoting a military rank. The proper name
Celer
has the ablative in
-e
.
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