Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (Classical Latin: prīsca Latīnitās, lit. 'ancient Latinity') was the Latin language in the period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. It descends from a common Proto-Italic language; Latino-Faliscan is likely a separate branch from Osco-Umbrian with possible further relation to other Italic languages and to Celtic; e.g ...

German has all three genders of late Proto-Indo-European—the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter. Most German nouns are of one of these genders. Nouns denoting a person, such as die Frau ("woman") or der Mann ("man"), often agree with the natural gender of what is described. However there exist several notable counterexamples such as das Mädchen ("girl") and das …

A few 2nd declension nouns, such as vir "man" and puer "boy", lack endings in the nominative and vocative singular. In the 2nd declension, the genitive plural in some words is optionally -um, especially in poetry: deum or deōrum "of the gods", virum or virōrum "of men". Neuter nouns such as bellum "war" have -a in the nominative plural. In ...

Nouns. Old English nouns are grouped by grammatical gender, and inflect based on case and number.. Gender. Old English still had all three genders of Proto-Indo-European: masculine, feminine, and neuter.. Each noun belongs to one of the three genders, while adjectives and determiners take different forms depending on the gender of the noun they describe. The word …

Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.There are five declensions, which are numbered and grouped by ending and grammatical gender.

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can also serve purposes indicating other relationships. For example, some verbs may feature arguments in the genitive case; and the …

Common Brittonic (Welsh: Brythoneg; Cornish: Brythonek; Breton: Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, was a Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.. It is a form of Insular Celtic, descended from Proto-Celtic, a theorized parent tongue that, by the first half of the first millennium BC, was diverging into separate dialects or languages.

In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'd' is indicated by signing with the right hand held with the index and thumb extended and slightly curved, and the tip of the thumb and finger held against the extended index of the left hand.. Use as a number. In the hexadecimal (base 16) numbering system, D is a number that corresponds to the number 13 in decimal (base 10) …

Treating vīrus as 2nd declension masculine. If vīrus were a masculine second declension term like alumnus, it would be correct to use vīrī as its plural. However, it is neuter. There does exist a Latin word virī, meaning "men" (the plural of vir, a second declension masculine noun), but it has a short i in the first syllable.. The form vīriī is impossible as a plural of vīrus, since we ...

In anatomy, a meatus (/ m iː ˈ eɪ t ə s /, mee-AY-təs), plural "meatus" or "meatuses", is a natural body opening or canal.. Meatus may refer to: . the external acoustic meatus, the opening of the ear canal; The internal auditory meatus, a canal in the temporal bone of the skull; the urinary meatus, which is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the …