(Notifying Metaknowledge, Fay Freak, Brutal Russian, JohnC5): I've created a new template {{la-ndecl}} to replace all of the noun {{la-decl-*}} templates. Some examples can be seen at User:Benwing2/test-la-ndecl. I'll document it better but in general the first param is the declension class, the second param is the lemma, and the third param if necessary is the stem of third-declension nouns (same as the second argument before to various of the {{la-decl-3rd*}} templates). It does a good job of autodetecting the declension subclasses, but you can also specify them explicitly using a slash and one or more subtypes, or force the autodetector not to autodetect a certain subtype by specifying a minus before the subtype (e.g. 2/-ius to turn off the automatic detection of the ius subtype for nouns whose lemma ends in -ius). I've also created a script to convert all the old template calls to the new format, and verified that each of them doesn't change the contents of the declension table (but in the process, a lot of likely bugs in the preceding tables have been revealed). Benwing2 (talk) 05:39, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
{{la-decl-multi}} handles? —*i̯óh₁n̥C 08:54, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
{{la-ndecl|3|Serapis|_or_|3|Serapis|Serapid}} (a noun with two possible declensions, either Serapis -is -ium or Serapis -idis -idum){{la-ndecl|2/sg|epulum|_or_|1|epulae}} (a heteroclite, modeled as a noun with two-declensions, one singulare tantum and one plurale tantum; I might need a bit of special-casing here to avoid thinking the noun has two possible lemmas){{la-ndecl|4|accentus|_|+|gravis}} (for accentus gravis; the _ means "join two words with a space", the + means adjectival, the masculine gender of the noun is autodetected as the default for decl-4, the fact that the adjective is third-declension two-stem is autodetected){{la-ndecl|2|ablātīvus|_|0|causae}} (for ablātīvus causae; 0 means "indeclinable"){{la-ndecl|2|foenum|-|2|graecum}} (for foenum-graecum; the - means "join two words with a hyphen"){{la-ndecl|5/F|rēs|:|+|pūblica}} (for rēspūblica; a colon followed by arbitrary text means "join two words with that text"; here, there is no text, hence the words will be joined directly){{la-ndecl|5/F|rēs|:|+|pūblicus}} (this should also work for rēspūblica, because adjectives have no inherent gender and the gender for rēs is explicitly given as feminine){{la-ndecl|3/M|rōs|rōr|_|+|marīnus}} (for rōs marīnus; the gender of rōs cannot be autodetected so it must be given, and an error will result otherwise){{la-decl-multi}}-type syntax that autodetects. Benwing2 (talk) 21:32, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
{{la-ndecl|((epulum<2.sg>,epulae<1>)) vetus/veter<3+.-I>}} = epulum vetus pl. epulae veterēs. The other cases would be expressed like this:
(Notifying Metaknowledge, Fay Freak, Brutal Russian, JohnC5): I am close to being ready to convert the 40+ existing {{la-decl-*}} noun templates into calls to the single {{la-ndecl}} template. The syntax is as documented here, and follows the general format of {{la-decl-multi}} closely except that it requires the full lemma and autodetects most subtypes. Support for multiword and multipart nouns is present, e.g. pars ōrātiōnis and foenum-graecum, and alternant support to support heteroclites (e.g. epulum) and nouns with multiple possible declensions (e.g. Serapis) is also present. The only thing I haven't yet implemented is support for adjectives in multiword nouns. But that shouldn't prevent conversion of all calls to {{la-decl-*}} for nouns. The only thing that can't be converted at present is about 1/3 of calls to {{la-decl-multi}}, specifically those that include declined adjectives. I have written a script to do the conversion and verified that it doesn't change the declension, by using template calls such as {{la-generate-noun-forms}}, {{la-generate-multi-forms}} and {{User:Benwing2/la-new-generate-noun-forms}} to generate all the forms for the existing and proposed converted templates and comparing them. I'd like to convert the nouns and delete the then-unused old templates; what do people think? Benwing2 (talk) 04:37, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
@Benwing2: Could there possibly be a field to mark a term as postclassical so that it disables the alternative gen. sg. -ī ending for nouns in -ium/-ius without having to key in the genitive directly? See absarius for an example where I've overridden it manually. This would make creating Medieval Latin entries a little easier. —Nizolan (talk) 19:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
.-ius along with the declension number for masculine nouns, and .-ium for neuter nouns. I've fixed up absarius appropriately. In general you can cancel out any autodetected subtype using a hyphen before the subtype. For example, 3.-I indicates a non-i-stem noun when the noun would be autodetected as i-stem. There's an example of using -I in the {{la-ndecl}} documentation in conjunction with iuvenis, and the general canceling behavior of the hyphen is mentioned, but .-ius and .-ium aren't specifically mentioned. I will fix that and try in general to clean up the {{la-ndecl}} documentation and include undocumented features. Benwing2 (talk) 17:40, 17 May 2020 (UTC)@Benwing2 In Homo sapiens sapiens the ablative singular “Homine sapiente sapientī”, “Homine sapientī sapiente” and accusative plural “Hominēs sapientēs sapientīs”, “Hominēs sapientīs sapientēs” inflections need to be removed because using different forms in one inflection is unlikely. J3133 (talk) 14:54, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
@Benwing2 Can Ali and ībis be made automatic? J3133 (talk) 10:45, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
@Benwing2 See paralysis § Declension. J3133 (talk) 06:58, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
The Accusative-Singular should be written -ēm, shouldn't it? Sabinettus (talk) 01:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)