If you're trying to learn Latin Feminine you will find some useful resources including a course about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Latin grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Latin. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Latin Feminine is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Latin language. But first we need to know what the role of Feminine is in the structure of the grammar in Latin.
Latin feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine.
Nouns
in Latin have a gender assigned to them. They will always be masculine,
feminine or neuter. You will never change a noun’s gender.
Adjectives change their endings to match the gender of the noun. To form
the root of a noun before adding the necessary ending, always look to the
genitive form. Here are some examples:
Examples.
Nominative, Genitive: Gender # declension
rosa,
rosae: feminine 1st declension
puer,
puerī: masculine 2nd declension
dōnum,
dōnī: neuter 2nd declension
rēx,
rēgis: masculine 3rd declension
virtūs,
virtūtis: feminine 3rd declension
corpus,
corporis: neuter 3rd declension
Note:
Third I-stem, Fourth and Fifth declensions also exist. There are several
exceptions to the rule for each type. For example: nauta, nautae (sailer) is
masculine even though it looks like it should be feminine. So a strong
sailor would be magnus nauta.
Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Latin Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | genus femininum |
| he is happy | is est laetus |
| she is happy | ea est laeta |
| he is American | is est Americanus |
| she is American | ea est Americana |
| man | vir |
| woman | mulier |
| father | pater |
| mother | mater |
| brother | frater |
| sister | soror |
| uncle | patruus / avunculus |
| aunt | amita / matertera |
| bull | bovis |
| cow | vacca |
| boy | puer |
| girl | puella |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Latin.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Latin? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Latin vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Latin Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | res |
| bathroom | balineum |
| bed | cubile |
| bedroom | cubiculum |
| ceiling | tectum |
| chair | cathedra |
| clothes | vestes |
| coat | paenula |
| cup | poculum |
| desk | mensa litteraria |
| dress | vestis |
| floor | pavimentum |
| fork | furcilla |
| furniture | supellex supellectilis |
| glass | poculum |
| hat | capitis tegumentum |
| house | domus |
| ink | atramentum |
| jacket | dalmatica |
| kitchen | culina |
| knife | culter |
| lamp | lucerna |
| letter | epistula |
| map | tabula geographica |
| newspaper | acta diurna |
| notebook | libellus |
| pants | bracae |
| paper | charta |
| pen | calamus |
| pencil | graphis |
| pharmacy | medicamentarii taberna |
| picture | tabula picta |
| plate | patina |
| refrigerator | cella frigidaria |
| restaurant | caupona |
| roof | tectum |
| room | conclave |
| rug | tapetum |
| scissors | forfex |
| shampoo | lavatio comae |
| shirt | subucula |
| shoes | calcei |
| soap | sapo |
| socks | tibialia |
| spoon | cochlear |
| table | mensa |
| toilet | locus sordidus |
| toothbrush | parvus peniculus |
| toothpaste | dentifricium |
| towel | mantele |
| umbrella | umbrella |
| underwear | subligar |
| wall | paries |
| wallet | sacculus |
| window | fenestra |
| telephone | telephonum |
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