[477]. (b.) Examples of stems in -t-, with nominative -s, genitive -tis, are:
| -as, -atis | anas, F., duck; G. Pl. also anitum (Cic.), and Ac. Pl. anitēs (Plaut.). |
| -ās, -ātis | aetās, F., age; also numerous other feminines in -tās ([262]). |
| -es, -etis | interpres, M., F., go-between; seges, F., crop; teges, F., mat. |
| -es, -itis | Masculines mostly: ames, net-pole; antistes, M., F., overseer; caespes, sod; comes, M., F., companion; eques, horseman; fōmes, tinder; gurges, whirlpool; hospes, M., F., guest-friend; līmes, path; merges, F., sheaf; mīles, M., F., soldier; palmes, vine-sprout; pedes, man afoot, infantry; poples, hough; stīpes, trunk; termes, bough; trāmes, by-path; dīves, rich; sōspes, safe; superstes, surviving; caelite, Ab., occupant of heaven, no N., adjectives. |
| -ēs, -etis | abiēs, F., fir; ariēs, M., ram; pariēs, M., wall. |
| -ēs, -ētis | Feminines: quiēs and requiēs, rest, no D., Ac. often requiem, Ab. usually requiē ([603]); inquiēs, unrest, N. only. |
| -os, -otis | compos, master of, adjective. |
| -ōs, -ōtis | nepōs, M., grandson, profligate; sacerdōs, M., priest; cōs, F., whetstone, no G. Pl. ([130]); dōs, F., dowry, no G. Pl. in good writers ([430]); dōtum once (Val. Max.), and dōtium in the jurists. |
| -ūs, -ūtis | Feminines: iuventūs, youth; salūs, existence; senectūs, old age; servitūs, slavery, all singular only; and virtūs, virtue, with a plural. |
[478]. vātēs, bard, has an -s- stem, namely -ēs ([236]), in the nominative, and vāt- in the other cases ([401]); G. Pl. vātum, but thrice vātium (Cic.). The only example of a neuter stem in -t-, with nominative -t, genitive -tis, is caput, head, capitis, and its compounds occiput, back of the head and sinciput, jole. lac, Ne., milk, lactis, has in old and late Latin nominative and accusative lacte, lact once in Varro ([171, 2]); acc. lactem occurs in Petronius once and later.
[479]. (3.) Stems in a labial mute, -b- or -p-, are declined as follows:
mūniceps, burgess, stem mūnicip-, M., F.
Singular: N. mūniceps, G. mūnicipis, D. mūnicipī, Ac. mūnicipem, Ab. mūnicipe. Plural: N. mūnicipēs, G. mūnicipum, D. mūnicipibus, Ac. mūnicipēs, Ab. mūnicipibus.
[480]. Examples of stems in -b- or -p-, with nominative -s, genitive -bis or -pis, are:
| -ebs, -ibis | caelebs, unmarried, adjective, the only stem in -b-. |
| ——, -apis | dapis, G., F., feast, N. and D. S., and G. Pl. not used ([430]). |
| -eps, -ipis | adeps or adips, M., F., fat, no G. Pl; forceps, M., F., pincers; mūniceps, burgher. particeps, sharing, and prīnceps, first, adjectives. |
| -eps, -upis | auceps, fowler; manceps, contractor, mancupis or mancipis. |
| ——, -ipis | stipis, G., F., small change, no N. |
| -ops, -opis | Ops, F., old Opis (Plaut.), goddess of power; opis, G., F., help, no N., D. once only, Pl. opēs, means ([418]). |
[II. STEMS IN A CONTINUOUS CONSONANT.]
[481]. (1.) Stems in -l- and -n- are declined as follows: