Student display abbreviations
Display version: student-v1. This is the implemented house style for Latin students, using familiar dictionary and classroom notation; it is not a claim that every publisher uses one identical abbreviation standard. The table is generated from the browser projection of the shared terminology registry, including numeric ordinals such as 1st decl. The frozen library reader retains its original student-v1 labels; see the API contract.
Part-of-speech labels keep noun and verb in full, avoiding confusion between “noun” and neuter n. Gender labels use m., f., n., and m./f. Indicative indic., imperative imper., imperfect impf., and impersonal impers. have distinct spellings. Person labels occur with sg. or pl.; “2nd sg.” means second person singular, not a WORDS class code.
| Category | Display | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Part of speech | verb | verb |
| Part of speech | adj. | adjective |
| Part of speech | pron. | pronoun |
| Part of speech | num. | numeral |
| Part of speech | adv. | adverb |
| Part of speech | prep. | preposition |
| Part of speech | conj. | conjunction |
| Part of speech | interj. | interjection |
| Part of speech | part. | participle |
| Part of speech | supine | supine |
| Case | nom. | nominative |
| Case | voc. | vocative |
| Case | gen. | genitive |
| Case | loc. | locative |
| Case | dat. | dative |
| Case | abl. | ablative |
| Case | acc. | accusative |
| Number | sg. | singular |
| Number | pl. | plural |
| Gender | m. | masculine |
| Gender | f. | feminine |
| Gender | n. | neuter |
| Gender | m./f. | common gender: masculine or feminine |
| Tense | pres. | present |
| Tense | impf. | imperfect |
| Tense | fut. | future |
| Tense | perf. | perfect |
| Tense | plupf. | pluperfect |
| Tense | fut. perf. | future perfect |
| Voice | act. | active |
| Voice | pass. | passive |
| Mood | indic. | indicative |
| Mood | subj. | subjunctive |
| Mood | imper. | imperative |
| Mood | inf. | infinitive |
| Person | 1st | first person |
| Person | 2nd | second person |
| Person | 3rd | third person |
| Comparison | positive | positive degree |
| Comparison | comp. | comparative |
| Comparison | superl. | superlative |
| Numeral | card. | cardinal numeral |
| Numeral | ord. | ordinal numeral |
| Numeral | distrib. | distributive numeral |
| Numeral | numeral adv. | numeral adverb |
| Verb type | trans. | transitive |
| Verb type | intrans. | intransitive |
| Verb type | impers. | impersonal |
| Verb type | dep. | deponent |
| Verb type | semi-dep. | semideponent |
| Pronoun type | pers. | personal |
| Pronoun type | rel. | relative |
| Pronoun type | reflex. | reflexive |
| Pronoun type | dem. | demonstrative |
| Pronoun type | interrog. | interrogative |
| Pronoun type | indef. | indefinite |
| Pronoun type | adjectival | adjectival use |
| Inflection pattern | decl | declension |
| Inflection pattern | conj | conjugation (in a numbered inflection pattern) |
| Inflection pattern | indecl. | indeclinable |
| Inflection pattern | abbr. | abbreviation |
Numeric legacy classes
Inflection classes are described contextually: 3rd conj, 2nd decl; neuter pattern, 1st and 2nd decl, or irregular: sum-type, for example. They are not printed as internal numeric pairs. Greek, mixed, contracted and defective patterns retain descriptions supported by the frozen source. “conj” after an ordinal means conjugation; as a standalone part-of-speech label, “conj.” means conjunction. Supine and positive degree are left in full.
An unspecified field is written out, not rendered as X. A nonfinite form has no “zeroth person”. These are display decisions; no candidate or legacy code changes. Original dictionary prose and the expandable original affix/compound notes retain their inherited wording, including any abbreviations embedded in that prose.
Reference conventions
The common case, tense, number, gender and part-of-speech abbreviations are consistent with examples in Dickinson College Commentaries, Lucian: Abbreviations and Homer: Abbreviations. These contemporary teaching editions illustrate shared classical-language notation and differences between house styles; this product selects a consistent Latin subset. Native meanings and numeric patterns are checked against the pinned INFLECTS.LAT and the Ada dictionary/inflections type definitions in the preserved archive. The registry can be revised after terminology review without changing the legacy engine.