Taz/Morphology

Nouns
Nouns decline for case and number. They also possess grammatical gender.

Gender
There are 4 nominal genders. They are the masculine, -os masculine, feminine, and neuter. Let us examine each more closely.
 * Masculine: has masculine agreement. Nouns of masculine gender are almost always second declension.
 * -os Masculine: has masculine agreement. Nouns of this gender almost always form their nominative singulars by suffixing to the bare root -os (hence the name), and are of either the first or second declension.
 * Feminine: has feminine agreement. Feminine nouns can be either first or second declension.
 * Neuter: has neuter agreement. Nouns of the neuter declension are nearly universally of neuter declension, and the converse applies too; neuter declension nouns are almost universally neuter.

In the section on declensions, each declension will have a subsection labelled 'gender rules'. These are useful guides as to the gender of a noun given its declension. They are not, however, universally applicable, and all have exceptions.

Below are examinations of each of the 3 declensions. Before one goes to look, note that the citation forms are accusative singular and nominative plural. These show two plain roots, and there is also a third 'bare root', always formed by removing any terminating consonant and then any terminating vowels from the first root. M stands for masculine, O for -os masculine, F for feminine, and N for neuter. To see how these elements combine, look at the following example dictionary entry below:

Macran, Macra f. Feminine of Marcus

First Declension
Example: seron, sere o. Slave-boy Finding roots from citation: To find Root 1, remove the -n from the acc. s. Root 2 is exactly the same as the nom. pl. Terminations are as follows: