[624]. A dozen adjectives ‘of one ending,’ mostly words applying to persons, with consonant stems throughout, have no nominative or accusative neuter plural; they are:
caelebs, compos, unmarried, master of
*dēses, dīves, lazy, rich
particeps, prīnceps, sharing, first
pūbēs, impūbēs, mangrown, immature
sōspes, superstes, safe, surviving
pauper, cicur, poor, tame
[625]. When these adjectives have a neuter, it is the same as the gender forms, except in the accusative singular; they are declined as follows:
M. F. and Ne. dīves, rich, stem dīvit-.
Singular: N. dīves, G. dīvitis, D. dīvitī, Ac. M. and F. dīvitem, Ne. dīves, Ab. dīvite. Plural: N. and Ac. M. and F. dīvitēs, G. dīvitum, D. and Ab. dīvitibus.