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::36 FIFTH DECLENSION. § .17EXERCISES ON THE FOURTH DECLENSION.1. Tell the gender, number, and case, of the following words,from the paradigm and additional examples, pp. 34 and 35, andtranslateFructus, fructus, fructuum, flatlbus, flatu, manuum, mambus,nutu, passuum, passibus, passus, cornua, tonitrlbus, veriibus,easu, currum, currui, fluctu, fluctibus, cornibus, &c.2. Translate the following words into Latin, and tell thegender, number, and case, in which the words are put ; vizOf fruit, to fruit, with the hand, for the hand, of a horn, toa horn, with a horn, from horns, horns, the horns, of thechariot, for a chariot, of chariots, from the waves, for thewaves, from his hands, with a nod, &c.§ 17. FIFTH DECLENSION.94.—The Fifth Declension has but one terminationof the nominative singular, namely, es ; as,res, a thing : dies, a day.All nouns of this declension are feminine, except dies, aday, which is masculine or feminine in the singular, and alwaysmasculine in the plural ; and meridies, the mid-day, whichis masculine in the singular, and wants the plural.1. Dies, a day.TERMINATIONS.Singular. Plural. Singular. Plural.N. di-es, N. di-es, -es, -es,G. di-ei, G. di-erum. -ei, -ei, -erum,D. di ei, D. di-ebus, -ei, -ei, -ebus,Ac. di-em, Ac. di-es, -em, -es,V. di-es, V. di-es, -es, -es,Ab. di-e. Ab. di-ebus. -e. -ebus,Obs. 1. Dies, res, and species, are the only nouns of thefifth declension which have the plural complete; acies, effigies,fades, series, and spes, in the plural, have only the nominative,accusative, and vocative ; the other nouns of this declensionhave no plural.