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Arcus, Us M Ductus, Us M Meātus, Us M Processus, Us M Sinus, Us M Textus, Us M

This document provides an overview of Latin anatomical terminology, including: 1) A list of common Latin nouns of the fourth declension used to describe anatomical structures such as ducts and processes. 2) Information on Latin noun and adjective declensions and their nominative and genitive singular endings. 3) Examples of first and second declension adjectives commonly used in anatomical terminology to describe positions such as "anterior" and "superior". 4) The most common Latin adjectives used in the comparative and superlative degrees, such as "longest" and "least". 5) Nominative and genitive plural endings for Latin nouns and adjectives.

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Arcus, Us M Ductus, Us M Meātus, Us M Processus, Us M Sinus, Us M Textus, Us M

This document provides an overview of Latin anatomical terminology, including: 1) A list of common Latin nouns of the fourth declension used to describe anatomical structures such as ducts and processes. 2) Information on Latin noun and adjective declensions and their nominative and genitive singular endings. 3) Examples of first and second declension adjectives commonly used in anatomical terminology to describe positions such as "anterior" and "superior". 4) The most common Latin adjectives used in the comparative and superlative degrees, such as "longest" and "least". 5) Nominative and genitive plural endings for Latin nouns and adjectives.

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Attention!!!

- In the anatomical terminology there is only a limited number of


masculines of the fourth declension. You should remember some of them as follows:

 arcus, us m arch
 ductus, us m duct
 meātus, us m tract, passage
 processus, us m process
 sinus, us m sinus; hollow
 textus, us m tissue
Remember the endings of Nominative and Genitive singular of all declensions:

Declension
I II III IV V
Gender
f m n m f n m n f
Nominative
singular us um
endings a different us u es
er on
Genitive
singular ae i is us ēi
endings

STEM OF NOUNS

Dictionary Genitive Stem


form
crista, ae f crist - ae crist -
collum, i n coll – i coll -
facĭes, ēi f faci – ēi faci -
pars, partis f part – is part -
vomer, ěris m voměr - is voměr -
caput, ĭtis n capĭt - is capĭt -

THE 1ST GROUP OF ADJECTIVES

Masculine Feminine Neuter


Nomina
-tive longus longa longum
Genitive
longi longae longi

The adjectives ending in –er fall also into this adjective group. In the anatomical
terminology only some of them are used:

Dictionary
Masculine Feminine Neuter English
Form
dexter dextra dextrum dexter, tra, right
trum
sinister, tra,
sinister sinistra sinistrum left
trum
liber, ĕra,
liber libĕra libĕrum free
ĕrum
ruber, bra,
ruber rubra rubrum red
brum

THE 2ND GROUP OF ADJECTIVES

Masc-ne Feminine Neuter


Nomina
frontālis frontālis frontāle
tive

Genitive Frontālis

Masculine Genitive Dictionary


Neuter English
& feminine form form
anterior, ius
anterior anterius anteriōris anterior
posterior, ius
posterior posterius posteriōris posterior
superior superius superiōris upper, superior superior, ius
inferior, ius
inferior inferius inferiōris lower, inferior
great, greater,
major majus majōris major
major, jus
minor, us
small, lesser,
minor minus minōris minor
You should remember the adjectives in comparitive degree used in the anatomical terminology:

You should remember the adjectives in superlative degree used in the anatomical terminology:

 Latissĭmus, a, um broadest
Longissĭmus a, um longest
 Maxĭmus, a, um greatest
 Minĭmus, a, um least
 Suprēmus, a, um supreme

The Latin nouns have Nominative plural endings as follows:

Declen- 1 2 3 4 5
sion
Gender f m n m, f n m n F
Endings -ae -i -a -es -a -us -ŭa -es
-ĭa

The Latin adjectives have Nominative plural endings as follows:

Adjectives of
st
the 1 group + Adjectives in
Adjectives of
adjectives in the comparative
the 2nd group
the superlative degree
degree
m f n m, f n m, f n
-i -ae -a -es -ĭa -es -a

Attention!!! - All neuter nouns irrespective of their declension as well as all


adjectives in the neuter form in Nominative plural end in –а (adjectives of the 2nd
group in -ĭa).

The Latin nouns have Genitive plural endings as follows:

Declension
1 2 3 4 5
Endings of ārum ōrum um ērum
Genitive um,
plural -ĭum

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