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Declension paradigm in Indo-European
The first declension is a category of declension that consists of mostly feminine nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin with the defining feature of a long
First_declension
Part of Latin grammar
Latin declension is the set of patterns in the Latin language for how nouns and certain other parts of speech (including pronouns and adjectives) change
Latin_declension
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way
Declension
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
according to the first and second or third declensions. The majority of attested Umbrian adjectives align with the first and second declension paradigms, although
Umbrian_language
Inflection in the Russian language
In Russian grammar, the system of declension is elaborate and complex. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are
Russian_declension
Language
open slits at the top and bottom. Like Latin, words of the Faliscan first declension nominative singular primarily ended in -a. Faliscan and Latin both
Faliscan_language
Extinct language of southern Italy
Oscan nouns, like in Latin, are divided into multiple declension patterns. The first declension in Oscan has three primary differences from Latin. The
Oscan_language
Grammatical case for noun addressed
the nominative plural except, again, for first declension nouns. In the standard language first declension nouns show the vocative plural by adding -a
Vocative_case
Sound change affecting Greek vowel length
ending, with the first-declension pseudo-thematic vowel ā. Nouns in a small subclass of the second declension (known as the "Attic declension") lengthen the
Quantitative_metathesis
Aspect of the Irish language
forms. There are four classes of declension of adjectives in Irish, which correspond to the first four declensions of nouns. There are two genders in
Irish_declension
Latin language in the period before 70 BC
Classical Latin textbooks the declensions are named from the letter ending the stem or First, Second, etc. to Fifth. A declension may be illustrated by a paradigm
Old_Latin
plural the declension is usually regular. Note, however, that many Greek names of the third declension in Latin pass over into the first declension in the
Declension of Greek nouns in Latin
Declension_of_Greek_nouns_in_Latin
accusative case appears between the nominative and genitive cases. Nominal declension involves six main cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental
Russian_grammar
Declensions in the Lithuanian language
Lithuanian has a declension system that is similar to declension systems in ancient Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit, Latin or Ancient Greek
Lithuanian_declension
native Gaulish speakers. Gaulish texts from La Graufesenque contain the first declension nominative plural ending -as instead of the standard ending -ae, such
Dialects_of_Latin
Part of speech in the Slovene language
This page describes the declension of nouns, adjectives and pronouns in Slovene. For information on Slovene grammar in general, see Slovene grammar. This
Slovene_declension
Form of the Greek language found in Homer
goddess"), and the genitive plural of first-declension nouns and the genitive singular of masculine first-declension nouns. For example θεᾱ́ων ("of goddesses")
Homeric_Greek
Ukrainian has seven grammatical cases and two numbers for its nominal declension and two aspects, three tenses, three moods, and two voices for its verbal
Ukrainian_grammar
Northeast Caucasian language
languages and are used for Turkic loanwords. There are two types of declensions.[citation needed] Lezgian has three native suffixes for nominal derivation:
Lezgian_language
Declensions in the Latvian language
language, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals are inflected in six declensions. There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative
Latvian_declension
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
adjectives: first- and second-declension and third-declension. They are so-called because their forms are similar or identical to first- and second-declension and
Latin
apéthanen. "He died in the battle." For first- and second-declension nouns accented on the ultima and third-declension nouns with a single-syllable stem, the
Ancient_Greek_nouns
Ancient Greek dialect group
With regard to declension, the stem is the part of the declined word to which case endings are suffixed. In the alpha or first declension feminines, the
Attic_Greek
Ancient Greek dialect or Hellenic language
Πευκέστας, Λαομάγα) First-declension masculine genitive singular in -α (e.g. Μαχάτα) First-declension genitive plural in -ᾶν First person personal pronoun
Ancient_Macedonian_language
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
adjectives and verbs are each divided into several inflectional classes (declension classes and conjugation classes), which have different sets of endings
Modern_Greek_grammar
Romance language of northern Aragon, Spain
the Latin first declension are usually feminine: filia(m) > filla ('daughter'). Some Latin neuter plural nouns joined the first declension as singular
Aragonese_language
Vowel placed before the ending of an Indo-European word
thematic nouns in the first (or alpha) declension and second (or omicron) declension, and athematic nouns in the third declension. Declension of the athematic
Thematic_vowel
Primary disciples of Jesus
the first two disciples called by Jesus. For this reason the Eastern Orthodox Church honours Andrew with the name Protokletos, which means "the first called"
Apostles_in_the_New_Testament
The Attic declension is a group of second-declension nouns and adjectives in the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, all of whose endings have long vowels
Attic_declension
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum
following declensions: Class I is derived from the Latin first declension. Class Ia mostly comes from Latin feminine nouns in the third declension. Class
Old_French
English language during the Middle Ages
n-stem nouns in Old English, but joined the weak declension in Middle English. Nouns of the strong declension are inherited from the other Old English noun
Middle_English
Oldest living male in an ancient Roman household
the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal first declension genitive singular ending was -ae. The pater
Pater_familias
Eastern Baltic language spoken in Lithuania
pronouns were replaced by masculine. The second declension of adjectives has almost merged with the first declension, with only singular nominative case endings
Samogitian_language
Language
the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German. A complete declension consists of five grammatical cases
Old_High_German_declension
Grammar of the Swedish language
first declension end in a consonant, such as: en våg ("a wave"), vågor ("waves"); en ros ("a rose"), rosor ("roses"). Nouns of the second declension are
Swedish_grammar
Grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions. Only singular first-declension nouns (ending in 'а', 'я', or 'ия') have a distinct accusative
Accusative_case
Declensions in the Gothic language
a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Gothic with a few traces of an old sixth instrumental case.[citation needed] A complete declension consists
Gothic_declension
Aspect of Czech grammar
Czech declension is a complex system of grammatically determined modifications of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals in Czech, one of the Slavic
Czech_declension
Latin phrase about learning
do not learn for school, but for life". The scholae and vitae are first-declension feminine datives of purpose. The motto is an inversion of the original
Non_scholae_sed_vitae
Grammatical case indicating a location
interchangeably. The first declension locative is by far the most common, because so many Roman place names were first declension, such as Roma, Rome,
Locative_case
Name list
both Mariam (Μαριάμ) and Maria (Μαρία). The Latin Vulgate uses the first declension, Maria. Maryam is the now-usual English-language rendition of the Arabic
Maryam_(name)
Dialect of Greek in the ancient world
ὑπασπισταί, etc.). Among the many contributions were the general use of the first declension grammar for male and female nouns with an -as ending, attested in the
Koine_Greek
List of erroneous Latin words
probably not written by) the first-century grammarian Marcus Valerius Probus. The Appendix was likely composed in Rome around the first half of the fourth century
Appendix_Probi
1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll
standard model noun in Greek textbooks of the time in paradigms of the first declension, short-alpha noun. Mathematics and logic are central to Alice. As Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland
Latin phrase after Virgil's Aeneid
lacrima, -ae, a first declension noun meaning "tear" (appearing here in the nominative plural) and from res, rei a fifth declension noun meaning "thing"
Lacrimae_rerum
Extinct East Germanic language
the Latin fourth declension in ‑us / ‑ūscode: lat promoted to code: la and the Greek third declension in ‑υς / ‑εως; n-stem declensions, equivalent to the
Gothic_language
Grammatical rules of the Lithuanian language
this declensional pattern. The third declension is very similar to the fifth declension. Duktė 'daughter' is the only word of the fifth declension, not
Lithuanian_grammar
characterised by a fairly regular system of inflection (conjugation and declension) as well as word formation. Certain regular or common alternations apply
Polish_morphology
Aspect of Sanskrit grammar
that preserves all the declensional types found in Proto-Indo-European, including a few residual heteroclitic r/n-stems. Declension of a noun in Sanskrit
Sanskrit_nominals
Declension paradigm in Indo-European
with the first- and second-declension endings, those of the third declension lack a theme vowel (a or o/u in the first and second declensions) and so are
Third_declension
German philosopher (1770–1831)
When he entered the Latin School two years later, he already knew the first declension, having been taught it by his mother. In 1776, he entered Stuttgart's
Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
while the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension. An inflection expresses grammatical categories with affixation (such
Inflection
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
identifiable declension classes, or groups of nouns with a similar pattern of case inflection or declension. Sanskrit has six declension classes, whereas
Grammatical_case
'race-course', μειράκιον meirákion 'lad' As with the first declension, the accent on 2nd declension oxytone nouns such as θεός theós 'god' changes to a
Ancient_Greek_accent
Chukotkan language of Kamchatka, Russia
needed] It is only attested in the declension of nouns of the first declension, usually inanimate. Grammatical first and second person suffixes on nouns
Alyutor_language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan. 1Note that the (mostly inanimate) nouns of the first declension only marked plurality in the absolutive case. The protolanguage is
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan language
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan_language
Ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages
whose plurals end in -ī instead of -a. This class corresponds to the first declension of Latin. It derives primarily from Proto-Indo-European nouns in *-eh₂-
Proto-Italic_language
Extinct Indo-European language of Iberia
Only two declension types are securely attested; they are the first declension (ā-stems) and second declension (o-stems). The third declension (consonant-
Lusitanian_language
Original capital of Macedon
is Aiges (Αιγές, Greek pronunciation: [eˈʝes]), showing a typical first declension transition from ancient plural ending -ai to the modern -es. In 1977
Aegae_(Macedonia)
Extinct Eastern Romance language
written instead of -ae, which is the correct plural inflection of first-declension feminine nouns. Many instances of this error are found on a perhaps
Pannonian_Latin
Diacritic (◌̂) in European scripts
word that used a long vowel, for example ablative of first declension and genitive of fourth declension, or between second and third conjugation verbs. It
Circumflex
Type of storage container
Cato the Younger is the first known literary person to use it. The Romans turned the Greek form into a standard first declension noun, amphora, pl. amphorae
Amphora
Sounds and pronunciation of Ancient Greek
nouns in the masculine first declension were confused with third-declension nouns with stems in /es/. The first-declension nouns had /ɛː/ resulting
Ancient_Greek_phonology
Chukotko-Kamchatkan language of northeast Russia
associative, and privative. Nouns are split into three declensions influenced by animacy: the first declension, which contains non-humans, has plural marking
Chukchi_language
Historical region in southern Europe
Occitanie [ɔksitani] ; Basque: Okzitania. Singular feminine noun, first declension (a stem): Nominative, Occitaniă Vocative, Occitaniă Accusative, Occitaniam
Occitania
Ancient Italic language
corresponding to the Latin first declension; o-stems, equivalent to the Latin second declension; u-stems, equivalent to the Latin fourth declension and only attested
South_Picene_language
Catholic names for males follow the second declension. However, if the name ends in e, it follows the first declension, such as Zoze (Joseph). If the name ends
Mangalorean_Catholic_name
How English plurals are formed; typically -(e)s
singular ends in -a (first declension) have plurals in -ae (anima, animae); nouns whose nominative singular ends in -um (second declension neuter) have plurals
English_plurals
Grammar of the Romanian language
correspond to Latin categorization, such as first declension which remained feminine. Similarly third declension nouns retained the gender from Latin, neuter
Romanian_grammar
pronounced /i(ː)/. However, in some inflexional endings (mostly the first-declension dative singular and the third-person singular subjunctive), the evolution
Koine_Greek_phonology
Romance language
rheumatismo. The period also produced the first grammars of Portuguese. Fernão de Oliveira published the first in 1536, advocating an orthography based
Portuguese_language
Naturalistic constructed language
Nouns can be subdivided into four declensions. They are similar to the declension system in Latin: The first declension are all words on -a, the vast majority
Venedic_language
Definite article in Arabic
However, it is worth mentioning that it turns second-declension nouns (ghayr munṣarif) into first declension nouns by allowing the kasra vowel. Moreover, al-
Arabic_definite_article
Public notary or government clerk
Latin word scriba, like poeta ("poet") and nauta ("sailor"), is a first declension noun of masculine gender. The others are the lictores, "lictors"; viatores
Scriba_(ancient_Rome)
Genus of saprobic fungi
from the earlier genus name Galera, which is the singular feminine first declension of the Latin word galerum, meaning a helmet or cap made of animal skin
Galerina
Grammar of the Latin language
shows the declension of puella "girl" (1st declension), dominus "lord, master" (2nd declension masculine), and bellum "war" (2nd declension neuter): 1st
Latin_grammar
Grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns
masculine nouns of the first declension (and their modifiers) show it in the singular (Frarie 1992:12), and other declensions and genders of nouns "restrict
Animacy
Reconstructed ancestor of the Albanian languages
Vulgar Latin) verbs belonging to the first declension (infinite -āre) were adapted into stems ending with PA *-ānj- (first person singular *-ānja > Old Gheg
Proto-Albanian_language
Aspect of Latin grammar
gender, declination (first, second, etc.) and the root's ending. In general the diminutive of nouns of the first or second declension which end in obstruents
Latin_diminutive
Aspect of the language
present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are carried out by a mix of inflection and two nonconcatenative morphological
Old_Norse_morphology
Set of Ancient Greek dialects
Homer. Homeric agémen Proto-Greek -ans and -ons → -ais and -ois (first- and second declension accusative plural) ~ Attic/Ionic -ās and -ōs (-ους). Dative plural
Aeolic_Greek
Composer of Carnatic Music (1776–1835)
(and/or the guru) in the first declension (Vibhakthi) in Sanskrit. Dikshitar later composed Kritis in all eight declensions on the Lord. These are with
Muthuswami_Dikshitar
Culture of the Catholics of Mangalore district
the second declension. Among women, the names follow the first declension, while among young girls, the names follow the second declension. The Mangalorean
Culture of Mangalorean Catholics
Culture_of_Mangalorean_Catholics
Declensions in the Slovak language
inanimate in plural. For each gender, there are four basic declension paradigms, i.e. declension models. Like in English, Slovak has singular and plural
Slovak_declension
Eastern Indo-Aryan language
the Rohingya term for "hóliba (tailor)" which belongs to Rohingya's first declension class. hólibaye (nominative) "[the] hóliba" [as a subject] (e.g. hólibaye
Rohingya_language
Masovian dialect of Polish
Rubach identifies a hard-stem feminine declension, a vocalic soft-stem declension, and a consonantal soft-stem declension as well as some irregular paradigms
Kurpie_dialect
Vocabulary of late (Vulgar) Latin not used in the prestigious/classical form
trend towards forming compound prepositions of the type ab ante, which at first simply combined the sense of their constituents (hence the original sense
Lexical changes from Classical Latin to Proto-Romance
Lexical_changes_from_Classical_Latin_to_Proto-Romance
West Slavic language
woman). Nouns of different genders follow different declension patterns. Examples of declension patterns for noun phrases of various genders follow:
Czech_language
Mnemonic device for teaching and remembering Latin grammar
rosa mnemonic, used by French schoolchildren, which is simply the first declension: rosa rosa rosam rosae rosae rosa rosae rosae rosas rosarum rosis rosis
Latin_mnemonics
Names of numbers in Latin
used to follow him' Ordinal numerals all decline like normal first- and second-declension adjectives. When declining two-word ordinals (thirteenth onwards)
Latin_numerals
Declination patterns for nouns in the Finnish language
languages (e.g. We're *at* school vs. We're good *at* math, in which only the first at has a locative meaning). In Finnish, the suffix -lla as a locative means
Finnish_noun_cases
Latin Christian ethno-religious community in India
as the first language. Most Mangalorean Catholic names for males follow the second declension. Among women, the names follow the first declension, while
Mangalorean_Catholics
Grammatical category
combinations of person and number of the subject. Elamite language had person declension also in nouns, forming a word with the meaning "I/You/they, the [noun]"
Grammatical_person
Plural nouns in the Romance languages
how these systems—especially the second—emerged historically from the declension patterns of Vulgar Latin, and this remains an area of much debate and
Romance_plurals
element) First Alcibiades First Ancient Theatre, Larissa First Battle of Lamia First declension First Macedonian War First Messenian War First Peloponnesian
Index of ancient Greece-related articles
Index_of_ancient_Greece-related_articles
Species of mite
Māori language word for Podocarpus totara. It is formed similarly to first declension nouns in the genitive singular, and would be a noun in apposition according
Eriophyes_totarae
Grammatical features of Old English
inflections, traditionally called the "strong declension" and the "weak declension". Together, both declensions contain many different inflections, though
Old_English_grammar
Mountain range in Bahia, Brazil
Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) (genitive cūrae); f, first declension Care, give attention to, to take care of, concern, thought; trouble
Sincura
Grammatical rules of the Belarusian language
(Belarusian: назоўнікі, BGN/PCGN: nazowniki) there are several types of declension: i-stem – feminine (feminine nouns ending in a hard consonant, soft consonant
Belarusian_grammar
Category of words in Proto-Indo-European
the masculine and the feminine. Nominals fell into multiple different declensions. Most of them had word stems ending in a consonant (called athematic
Proto-Indo-European_nominals
FIRST DECLENSION
FIRST DECLENSION
Girl/Female
Indian
First
Girl/Female
Latin
First.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
First
Boy/Male
Tamil
First
Girl/Female
British, English
First; Always First
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
First
Boy/Male
Indian
First
Boy/Male
Tamil
First
Boy/Male
Czechoslovakian
First.
Girl/Female
Hindu
First
Biblical
first begotten; first fruits
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
First
Boy/Male
English
From the Thicket of Trees
Girl/Female
Tamil
First
Boy/Male
Muslim
First
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
First
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
First
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
First
Girl/Female
Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Tamil
First
Girl/Female
Biblical
First-born, first fruits.
FIRST DECLENSION
FIRST DECLENSION
Boy/Male
French
Flower.
Boy/Male
Welsh
God like'.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Latin
Young Girls who Assisted at Pagan Religious Ceremonies
Girl/Female
Latin Biblical Greek
Delicate.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Fishbourne in Sussex and the Isle of Wight or Fishburn in Durham, all named from Old English fisc ‘fish’ + burna ‘stream’.In some cases, possibly a translation of Fischbach.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lovable, Helpful
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus' Brother to Saturninus.
Girl/Female
Italian
Blessed.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Philosophers stone, A jewel
Girl/Female
Muslim
A bracelet
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n.
First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
n.
The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.
a.
Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
a.
Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.
a.
Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
v. t.
To gripe with the fist.
a.
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
a.
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
adv.
In the first place; first in order.
a.
First.
a.
First; chief.
v. t.
To strike with the fist.
adv.
Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.
a.
First-formed.
n.
A first game; first plan.
adv.
First.
adv.
Beforehand; first.
n. pl.
First fruits.