Locatives
The case of location, the locative was largely consumed by the ablative in its function of place where, but it still exists in some forms.
Locative Case Endings
|
1st Decl. |
2nd Decl. |
| Sing. |
ae |
i (long) |
- Towns and small islands in the singular of the first and second declensions retain the locative case.
- Sundry nouns also retain the locative:
domi (at home), humi (on the ground), belli and militiae with domi --> domi militiaeque or belli domique (at home and abroad), ruri (in the country), Carthagini (at Carthage).
- Appositions to the locative are put in the ablative (of place where) with the preposition in.
- Adjectives modifying domi occur in the genitive.
renovata antediem quattuor Kalendis Juliis MMDCCLV A.U.C. (ab urbe condita)
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