{"id":68,"date":"2016-08-01T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=68"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:41:02","slug":"%c2%a7113-stem-and-base-in-the-greek-third-declension","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/chapter\/%c2%a7113-stem-and-base-in-the-greek-third-declension\/","title":{"raw":"\u00a7113. Stem and Base in the Greek Third Declension","rendered":"\u00a7113. Stem and Base in the Greek Third Declension"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;text-indent: 36pt\">Because the Greek 3rd declension is quite closely parallel to its Latin 3rd declension counterpart, you will understand why nouns of this class may have bases that are not apparent from their nominative (vocabulary) forms\u2014cf. <b>rex<\/b>, <b>REG<\/b><b>-is<\/b> and <b>nomen<\/b>, <b>NOMIN<\/b><b>-is<\/b>, where the Latin bases are capitalized. In Latin, the noun stem that precedes the <b>-is<\/b> ending of the genitive case is regularly used as the BASE for all derivative words. In Greek, where the 3rd declension genitive ending is -\u03bf\u03c2, this same situation usually prevails; see, for example, the noun \u1f00\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1, \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1-\u03bf\u03c2 (base <b>andr-<\/b>), \u201cman\u201d, which we met in <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/chapter\/%c2%a7111-interesting-words\/\">\u00a7111<\/a>. However, we\u2019ll find an occasional 3rd declension Greek noun with a base that differs from its stem\u2014e.g., \u1f51\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1, \u1f51\u03b4\u03b1\u03c4-\u03bf\u03c2 (base <b>hydr-<\/b>), \u201cwater\u201d; and there will be others that have two alternative bases\u2014e.g., \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7, \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba-\u03bf\u03c2 (base<b> gyn-<\/b> or<b> gynaik-<\/b>), \u201cwoman.\u201d Here the best advice is to remember the combining form(s) and not worry too much about the original Greek word.<\/p>","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;text-indent: 36pt\">Because the Greek 3rd declension is quite closely parallel to its Latin 3rd declension counterpart, you will understand why nouns of this class may have bases that are not apparent from their nominative (vocabulary) forms\u2014cf. <b>rex<\/b>, <b>REG<\/b><b>-is<\/b> and <b>nomen<\/b>, <b>NOMIN<\/b><b>-is<\/b>, where the Latin bases are capitalized. In Latin, the noun stem that precedes the <b>-is<\/b> ending of the genitive case is regularly used as the BASE for all derivative words. In Greek, where the 3rd declension genitive ending is -\u03bf\u03c2, this same situation usually prevails; see, for example, the noun \u1f00\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1, \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1-\u03bf\u03c2 (base <b>andr-<\/b>), \u201cman\u201d, which we met in <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/chapter\/%c2%a7111-interesting-words\/\">\u00a7111<\/a>. However, we\u2019ll find an occasional 3rd declension Greek noun with a base that differs from its stem\u2014e.g., \u1f51\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1, \u1f51\u03b4\u03b1\u03c4-\u03bf\u03c2 (base <b>hydr-<\/b>), \u201cwater\u201d; and there will be others that have two alternative bases\u2014e.g., \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7, \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba-\u03bf\u03c2 (base<b> gyn-<\/b> or<b> gynaik-<\/b>), \u201cwoman.\u201d Here the best advice is to remember the combining form(s) and not worry too much about the original Greek word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Chapter 18: The Greek Noun (Declension 3)","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[52],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-68","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":67,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions\/478"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/67"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}