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In technical and scientific work dealing with this and that corpus, Latin’s third declension plural of corpora came right along with it. O tempora, o mores! (Ciceronian citation because that’s the only other third declension noun I could quickly (tempus fugit) think of that people might generally recognize.)
– tchrist ♦
Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 19:19
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How does the vowel extension reflect? Also, where can I read about determining which declension a noun is?
– einpoklum
Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 22:29
Latin declensions are found by looking at the genitive, given as the second word form in a Latin dictionary, and/or are simply memorized. Long vowels in Latin may be written under a macron, eg. status → statūs, but this is inconsistent usage across time, place, et al. and is often omitted.
– BRPocock
Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 22:46

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