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 triparic.

Words Imported from Latin

Nouns

First Declension (genitives in -ae)

• Default: Just use the nom. sing.
  • persōna > persona (not the standard triparic word, which is perz)
  • cūria > curia
  • schola > scola (with the correct orthography fix for ch > c. Not the standard triparic word, which was schula; this one came from German rather than Latin, though, so that makes sense)

Second Declension (-i)

• Default: Just use the abl. sing (⟨-o⟩).
  • ager, agri > agro (not in the current dictionary at all, but another good example)
  • liber, libri > libro
  • centrum, -i > centro
  • pugnus, -i > pugno
  • quantus, -i > quanto

Third Declension (-is)

• Genitives in ⟨-ātis⟩ drop the ⟨-tis⟩:
  • maiestās, -ātis > majesta (not the recognized Triparic word for this, which is machisto)
  • dīplōma, -ātis > diploma
  • thema, -ātis > þema
• 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 plus -e:
  • lēx (lēgēs), lēgis > lege
  • nox (noctēs), noctis > nocte
• Default: Just use the abl. sing. (drop ⟨-is⟩ from genitive and add -e to it)
  • equester, -tris > equestre (not the recognized Triparic word for this, which was equester)

Fourth Declension (-ūs)

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

Fifth Declension (-eī)

• Default: ?