In order to consolidate the rules described in the previous section, the following exercise will be found useful.
With the aid of a dictionary, and the rules described in Declencion 3, fill in the missing cells in each of the listed Third Declension nouns. The first four and the 10th have been done for you. To get the answers click on the Printer Friendly icon at the bottom of this page.
Nom. Sing. | Gen. Sing. | gender | Parisyllabic | Imparisyllabic | Single Consonant | Double Consonant | Gen. Pl. | Meaning | # |
Rex | Rex-is | m. | | Y | Y | | -um | King | 1 |
Caesar | Caesar-is | m. | | Y | Y | | -um | Caesar | 2 |
Flumen | Flumen-is | n. | | Y | Y | | -um | River | 3 |
Cohors | Cohort-is | f. | | Y | | Y | -ium | Cohort, courtyard | 4 |
Pons | Pont-is | m. | | | | | | Bridge | 5 |
Imber | Imbr-is | m. | | | | | | Rain | 6 |
Dens | | m. | | | | | | Tooth | 7 |
Gens | | f. | | | | | | Clan family; family line | 8 |
Cor | | n. | | | | | | Heart | 9 |
Fulgor | Fulgor-is | m. | | Y | Y | | -um | Lightening | 10 |
Color | Color-is | m. | | | | | | Colour | 11 |
Ars | Art-is | f. | | | | | | Art | 12 |
| Aestas | Aestat-is | f. | | | | | | Summer | 13 |
| Carmen | Carmin-is | n. | | | | | | Poem | 14 |
| Dux | Duc-is | m. & f. | | | | | | Dux, leader | 15 |
| Mel | Mell-is | n. | | | | | | Honey | 16 |
| Ravis | Rav-is | f. | | | | | | Raucousness | 17 |
| Tussis | Tuss-is | f. | | | | | | Cough | 18 |
| Sitis | Sit-is | f. | | | | | | Thirst | 19 |
| Amussis | Amuss-is | f. | | | | | | Spirit-level | 20 |
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