Template:P:la:4decl-neut

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Note: the nominative/accusative ending vowel of 4th declension neuters is etymologically expected to be short, and is stated to be so by late grammarians. A long vowel would also be expected to be subject to iambic shortening in most forms. There are only two passages that conclusively require a long scansion.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § I D footnote 11, page 252
  2. ^ Vergil, Aeneid 11.859 and Pseudo-Ovid, Nux 106
  3. ^ Diomedis artis grammaticae libri III in Keil H., CGL I, p. 309, 3: "bipertita est quae alterna casuum productione et correptione variatur, ut genu, cornu, gelu. haec enim duobus modis tantum in declinatione variantur, quod quidem productione et correptione distinguimus. nam in nominativo accusativo vocativo correpta u proferuntur, in genetivo dativo ablativo producta.
  4. ^ Flavii Sosipatri Charisii artis grammaticae libri V in Keil H., CGL I, 150, 36: "bipertita forma est quae in neutralibus nominibus u littera finitis est, <in> quibus nominativus et accusativus sociantur, ut genu, veru; genetivum, dativum, ablativum segregat ab his productio."