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Nouns in Latin are divided into three genders (Lat. genera ‘kinds’). This distinction is not indicated in the noun itself, but influences adjectives modifying it.

• Masculine nouns are those whose adjectives take the same endings they do when applied to men;
• Feminine nouns are those whose adjectives take the same endings they do when applied to women;
• Neuter are all other nouns.

In addition, nouns describing living beings may also be of common gender, which means they are masculine when they refer to males, or feminine when applied to females, e.g. canis ‘dog.’

However, some words use different forms for male and female, such as ursus masc. ‘he-bear’, ursa fem. ‘she-bear’; others use one form and one gender for both males and females: an example is vulpes ‘fox’, which is only fem.