Triparic Word Patterns

General Note

The following patterns are guidelines. They are not hard-and-fast rules. If the language committee really hates the result of one of these rules, they will try to fix the rules to produce better results, but ultimately a word may be mangled in whatever way we like to make it properly triparik.

Words Imported from Latin

Nouns

First Declension (genitives in -ae)

• Default: Just use the nom. sing. persōna > persona

Second Declension (-i)

• Default: Just use the abl. sing (⟨-o⟩).
  • ager, agri > 'agro
  • liber, libri > libro
  • centrum, centri > centro

Third Declension (-is)

• Genitives in ⟨-ātis⟩ drop the ⟨-tis⟩: maiestās, -ātis > majesta
• Genitives in ⟨-oris⟩ drop the ⟨-ris⟩:
  • tempus, -oris > tempo
  • arbor, -oris > arbo
• Nouns in nominative ⟨-x⟩ which expand to stop + ⟨-ēs⟩ in plural and stop + ⟨-is⟩ in genitive use that stop + -e
  • lēx (lēgēs), lēgis > lege
  • nox (noctēs), noctis > nocte
• Default: Drop ⟨-is⟩ from genitive and add -e to it.

Fourth Declension (-ūs)

• Default: Replace genitive ⟨-ūs⟩ with -o: manus, -ūs > mano; porticus, -ūs > portico

Fifth Declension (-eī)

• Default: ?