More on Third Declension i-Stems

[@legaleagle46]

Thank you for FINALLY explaining something that has had me confused for over 40 years. I-stems have always driven me crazy because I could never remember how to tell an I-stem from a Consonant-stem, since to me, ALL of the Genitive stems appear to end in consonants. And I can see why the Romans themselves threw up their hands and simply had the i-stems and mixed I-stems merge with the Consonant stems in the Third Declension (which is why the Romance languages do not observe this distinction in the Third-Declension nouns and adjectives that they all inherited from Latin). The path of least resistance would naturally have led to the leveling of the I-stem variants (that, and the fact that except for Romanian, none of the Romance languages has any trace of the Latin case system, as almost all Romance Nominatives evolved from the Accusative, not the Nominative, the lone exception being Italian, which still preserves the Nominative plural!).

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[@curtpiazza1688]

Yikes! Complicated stuff...but great explanation!

[@Trancequill]

This has been really helpful for me in a project where I want to record myself reading the magna carta in latin. But I have just a couple of questions I hoped you could help with. If there are no macrons appearing in the text I can find online does that mean it's always pronounced in the short form? And there are a lot of words relating to places ending in ie such as Anglie and Normannie how would these be pronounced?

[@adampaulik8837]

Im having a headache from the information overload. Anyways, nice video and love your content!

[@rdyt0]

In Wheelock's Latin, the accusative plural of "omnis" is "omnēs" instead of "omnīs". Which one is correct? or is it just a variation through different time periods?

[@christophersmith3942]

I am unfamiliar with any -tas, -tatis words taking i-stem endings. Could you perhaps point me to where this is seen in literature?

[@fanfarrada]

Is it possible to explain why teachers on videos speak so fast or quickly? When we try to learn something or new subjects, the used language must be soft and clear, not so confused, I think1

[@latintutorial]

That's interesting, normally I get criticized for speaking too slowly! I like to think of my cadence as more natural. But with videos, you can always pause, rewind, or rewatch, and I encourage you to do all of those if you feel that you need more time with a concept.

[@miconian]

I'm confused by the part where you say that glīs could have been an I-stem, but it changed its genitive singular form to -īs. But wait... that is the I-stem genitive singular form, right? And glīs was influenced by mūs, but... isn't that also an I-stem?

[@WillelmusAestus]

Is "dens" also an exception? I'm asking this as it ends in "-ns", yet it is not polysyllabic. So I assumed it is not a mixed stem, however, when I checked the word the dictionary did classify it as an i-stem.

[@WillelmusAestus]

Oh, and the same happened with the words "ars" and "mons".

[@WillelmusAestus]

Ok, I get they are; but I guess they still are exceptions, as they don't respect the rules Latintutorial talked about in this video.

[@latintutorial]

These words fall under rule 2 here - the monosyllables ending in a [consonant] + -s or -x.

[@WillelmusAestus]

Oooh, right... *facepalm* thanks! :)

[@maxh1964]

dens/dentis is not a monosyllable tho

[@wockolia]

Vocative?

[@_grzehotnik]

Always equal to nominative

[@languagelover9170]

Φιρστ ;) 6΄45μμ 10/10