If a noun has a feminine declension and also a masculine declension, are they considered to be different words?
Second, what term describes there association? Ie. Would you say they share the same root? Etc...
Same noun different gender / declension
Re: Same noun different gender / declension
You mean like ἀδελφός and ἀδελφή? Same root, different morphology, different referent, so not the same word, though closely related. In Latin you have fīlius, son, and fīlia, daughter. Invariably a Latin student will confuse them translating one as the other, to which I will say something like, "No, that means female son!" I suppose you could get really technical in the definition and say things like "male offspring of the same parents" and "female offspring of the same parents" but why bother when we have handy English equivalents like brother and sister?
Re: Same noun different gender / declension
Barry, that is what I figured but wasn’t sure.
Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks for the clarification.