User:Urszag/Fifth-declension
Certain grammars indicate that fifth-declension nouns in Latin are generally defective in the plural, lacking attested genitive forms in -erum or ablative/dative forms in -ebus. I'm going to try to find out which nouns are attested with these forms.
Another topic that I've been wondering about is whether -ies abstract nouns with a synonymous form in -ia should be categorized as alternative forms or as synonyms.
I found an attested plural form in -erum and/or -ebus for:
To add: pernicies
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/De_constantia_in_abdicatione_magistratus/FsyhSVn8JrYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pernicierum%22&pg=PA419&printsec=frontcover
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Maxima_bibliotheca_veterum_patrum_et_ant/QpnWPu9e68UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22perniciebus%22&pg=PA1168&printsec=frontcover
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Summa_theologica_scholastica_et_moralis/RjpBAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22perniciebus%22&pg=PA242&printsec=frontcover
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Monumenta_Franciscana/mklgfIm0FjAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pernicierum%22&pg=PA362&printsec=frontcover
I failed to find any such form for:
Attested, but not sure what citation to use:
- acies
No entries yet: adluvies, alluvies, amicities, balbuties, conluvies, fallacies, pigrities
- L&S: lenities, imperfundies, intergeries, interluvies, magnities/magnicies, prosicies, pullities, saevities, sordities, tardities, vanities
- factispecies
Words (or pairs of words) with both -ies and -ia forms:
- ascitities, ascititia
- avarities, avaritia
- blandities, blanditia
- canities, canitia
- durities, duritia
- luxuries, luxuria
- maceries, maceria
- materies, materia
- mollities, mollitia
- mundities, munditia
- nigrities, nigritia
- planities, planitia
- puerities, pueritia
Newly entered, rare: barbaries, immundities, segnities, spurcities, tristities