{"id":600,"date":"2016-07-22T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/?post_type=chapter&p=600"},"modified":"2017-06-15T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:06:04","slug":"21-latin-nouns-fifth-declension","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/chapter\/21-latin-nouns-fifth-declension\/","title":{"raw":"\u00a721. Latin Nouns of the Fifth Declension","rendered":"\u00a721. Latin Nouns of the Fifth Declension"},"content":{"raw":"

The 5th Declension is a very small group of Latin nouns, only a few of which have any influence on English. Most of these actually retain their Latin spelling as English derivatives; for example, species, series<\/i>, and rabies<\/i>. All these words have changed in pronunciation: Latin rabies<\/b> (\u201crage,\u201d \u201cmadness\u201d) had three distinct syllables, \u201crah-bee-ace,\u201d which we have reduced to two, \u201cray-bees.\u201d Bona fides<\/b> was a Latin phrase meaning \u201cgood faith\u201d; we use it in that form, as well as in the Latin ablative case\u2014bona fide<\/i> (\u201cin good faith\u201d). In their nominative or vocabulary form, Latin 5th declension nouns always end in -es<\/b>, and the base is the part of the word that precedes that ending.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Table 3.4 LATIN FIFTH DECLENSION NOUNS (F.)<\/strong><\/caption>\r\n
effigies<\/b><\/td>\r\nlikeness, effigy<\/td>\r\nres<\/b><\/td>\r\nthing<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
facies<\/b><\/td>\r\nform, face<\/td>\r\nseries<\/b><\/td>\r\nrow, series<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
rabies<\/b><\/td>\r\nrage, madness<\/td>\r\nspecies<\/b><\/td>\r\nlook, appearance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

The base of faci-es<\/b> appears in E facial<\/i>. The origin of our word face<\/i>, Latin facies<\/b> suggested the \u201cmake\u201d or \u201cappearance\u201d of a person. What is prima facie<\/i> evidence? This word clearly had some semantic overlap with species<\/b>, <\/b>though species<\/b> was less often used of the human countenance. English species<\/i> (\u201cspee-sheeze\u201d) denotes the individual \u201cappearance\u201d of a variety of plant or animal life, as opposed to the broad class or genus<\/i>. Its Latin plural is identical to the singular, as is the case with all 5th declension nouns.<\/p>","rendered":"

The 5th Declension is a very small group of Latin nouns, only a few of which have any influence on English. Most of these actually retain their Latin spelling as English derivatives; for example, species, series<\/i>, and rabies<\/i>. All these words have changed in pronunciation: Latin rabies<\/b> (\u201crage,\u201d \u201cmadness\u201d) had three distinct syllables, \u201crah-bee-ace,\u201d which we have reduced to two, \u201cray-bees.\u201d Bona fides<\/b> was a Latin phrase meaning \u201cgood faith\u201d; we use it in that form, as well as in the Latin ablative case\u2014bona fide<\/i> (\u201cin good faith\u201d). In their nominative or vocabulary form, Latin 5th declension nouns always end in -es<\/b>, and the base is the part of the word that precedes that ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Table 3.4 LATIN FIFTH DECLENSION NOUNS (F.)<\/strong><\/caption>\n
effigies<\/b><\/td>\nlikeness, effigy<\/td>\nres<\/b><\/td>\nthing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
facies<\/b><\/td>\nform, face<\/td>\nseries<\/b><\/td>\nrow, series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
rabies<\/b><\/td>\nrage, madness<\/td>\nspecies<\/b><\/td>\nlook, appearance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The base of faci-es<\/b> appears in E facial<\/i>. The origin of our word face<\/i>, Latin facies<\/b> suggested the \u201cmake\u201d or \u201cappearance\u201d of a person. What is prima facie<\/i> evidence? This word clearly had some semantic overlap with species<\/b>, <\/b>though species<\/b> was less often used of the human countenance. English species<\/i> (\u201cspee-sheeze\u201d) denotes the individual \u201cappearance\u201d of a variety of plant or animal life, as opposed to the broad class or genus<\/i>. Its Latin plural is identical to the singular, as is the case with all 5th declension nouns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Chapter 3: The Latin Noun (Declensions 3, 4, 5)","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[52],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-600","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/600\/revisions\/2074"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/579"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/600\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}