utrum Gen. utrius utrius utrius Dat. utri utri utri Acc. utrum utram utrum Voc. ——­ ——­ ——­ Abl. utro utra utro

Nom. totus tota totum Gen. totius totius totius Dat. toti toti toti Acc. totum totam totum Voc. ——­ ——­ ——­ Abl. toto tota toto

1.  All these words lack the Vocative.  The Plural is regular.

2.  Neuter is declined like uter.

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ADJECTIVES OF THE THIRD DECLENSION.

67.  These fall into three classes,—­

1.  Adjectives of three terminations in the Nominative Singular,—­one for each gender.

2.  Adjectives of two terminations.

3.  Adjectives of one termination.

a.  With the exception of Comparatives, and a few other words mentioned below in Sec. 70, 1, all Adjectives of the Third Declension follow the inflection of i-stems; i.e. they have the Ablative Singular in -i, the Genitive Plural in -ium, the Accusative Plural in -is (as well as -es) in the Masculine and Feminine, and the Nominative and Accusative Plural in -ia in Neuters.

Adjectives of Three Terminations.

68.  These are declined as follows:—­

Acer, sharp.

SINGULAR. 
MASCULINE.       FEMININE.        NEUTER.
Nom.  acer            acris           acre
Gen.  acris           acris           acris
Dat.  acri            acri            acri
Acc.  acrem           acrem           acre
Voc.  acer            acris           acre
Abl.  acri            acri            acri

PLURAL.
Nom.  acres           acres           acria
Gen.  acrium          acrium          acrium
Dat,  acribus         acribus         acribus
Acc.  acres, -is      acres, -is      acria
Voc.  acres           acres           acria
Abl.  acribus         acribus         acribus

1.  Like acer are declined alacer, lively; campester, level; celeber, famous; equester, equestrian; paluster, marshy; pedester, pedestrian; puter, rotten; saluber, wholesome; silvester, woody; terrester, terrestrial; volucer, winged; also names of months in -ber, as September.

2.  Celer, celeris, celere, swift, retains the e before r, but lacks the Genitive Plural.

3.  In the Nominative Singular of Adjectives of this class the Feminine form is sometimes used for the Masculine.  This is regularly true of salubris, silvestris, and terrestris.  In case of the other words in the list, the use of the Feminine for the Masculine is confined chiefly to early and late Latin, and to poetry.