[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.