සැකිල්ල:la-adecl/documentation

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A user suggests that this ලතින් සැකිල්ල page be cleaned up, giving the reason: “Issues:

"1&2, 1-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-P, 3-C or irreg" -- those codes need an explanation.
"noneut=: Don't display the neuter. Used for gendered nouns derived from adjectives, such as Rōmānus (“a Roman”)" -- Rōmānus පුරුෂ ලිංග (“Roman”) and Rōmāna ස්ත්‍රී ලිංග (“female Roman”) aren't inflected forms of each other, but two different nouns with different genders and senses. Hence there have to be two separate noun entries with separate inflections. Additionally, it would be a bad idea to use an adjective inflection template in noun entries as it messes up Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:la-adecl.”

Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup⁽⁺⁾ for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.

This template creates a declension table for all types of Latin adjective (including multiword/multipart adjectives). It replaces the ten or so {{la-decl-*}} templates that used to exist.

Basic usage

Most of the time, just specifying the lemma is enough, e.g.:

bonus (“good”): {{la-adecl|bonus}}
melior (“better”): {{la-adecl|melior}}
optimus (“best”): {{la-adecl|optimus}}
līber (“free”): {{la-adecl|līber}}
audāx (“bold”): {{la-adecl|audāx}}
suāvis (“sweet”): {{la-adecl|suāvis}}

For third-declension adjectives of three terminations, you need to give a hint that the adjective is third-declension (otherwise, it will be assumed to be first/second-declension):

ācer (“sharp, bitter”): {{la-adecl|ācer<3+>}}

Sometimes you have to give the stem, if not deducible from the lemma (the rules for deducing the stem are the same as for {{la-ndecl}}):

piger (“slow, dull”): {{la-adecl|piger/pigr}}
locuplēs (“rich, wealthy, possessing large landed property”): {{la-adecl|locuplēs/locuplēt}}

For third-declension non-i-stem adjectives, you need to specify this explicitly using the .-I subtype:

concolor (“of the same color”): {{la-adecl|concolor<+.-I>}}

Sometimes you need to combine an explicit stem, partial or total specification of the declension, and a subtype:

vetus (“old”): {{la-adecl|vetus/veter<3+.-I>}}
ūber (“fruitful, copious”): {{la-adecl|ūber/ūber<3-1+.-I>|abl_sg_f=ūberī|abl_sg_m=ūberī|abl_sg_n=ūberī}}

In the latter case, it's not enough to indicate that the adjective is third-declension using 3+, because it will then be assumed to be an adjective of three terminations, as with ācer above. In this case, you need to specify the full declension 3-1+ to indicate that it is third-declension of one termination. The same must always be done with participles, e.g.:

amāns (“loving”) (present active participle of amō): {{la-adecl|amāns<3-P+>}}

The reason for this is that participles decline differently in the ablative singular from adjectives in -ns such as ingēns (“huge”) and īnfāns (“speechless, newbown”), and adjectives in -ns are by default assumed to be the latter type.

Parameters

The following parameters are allowed:

|1=: Lemma with macrons, optionally along with a code indicating the declension and subtype(s) (see below).
|num=: Number restriction, if not specified as a subtype.
|title=: Override the automatically-generated title.
|footnote=: Provide a note to be displayed below the table.
|noneut=: Don't display the neuter. Used for gendered nouns derived from adjectives, such as Rōmānus (“a Roman”), Portucēnsis (“a Portuguese person”).

The general form for the declension/subtype code is <DECLENSION+.SUBTYPE.SUBTYPE...>, i.e. the declension (omitted, 3, or the exact declension, namely 1&2, 1-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-P, 3-C or irreg), followed by a + sign, followed by zero or more subtypes, separated by periods. A bare lemma is equivalent to the lemma followed by <+>.