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the Greek but a genuine Latin word), and the gender 

 would naturally, in the mouths of the people, be changed 

 by the analogy of the Latin word. 



The same danger threatened all the Greek derivatives 

 that became thoroughly Latinized and entered into the lan- 

 guage of the people ; many succumbed, and yet not so many 

 as one would naturally expect. Twenty -five or thirty will 

 exhaust the list: e. g. the catapult is a Roman rather than a 

 Greek implement of war, and so we are not surprised to 

 find cata-pulta, -ae, fem., although it owes its origin to 

 KaTa-Tre\Tr)<;,-ov, masc. Dia-dema, dogma, schema, 

 etc., were looked upon as neuter nouns and inflected 



dia-dema, -demat-is, -demat-i, 

 dogma, dogmat-is, dogmat-i, 

 schema, schemat-is, schemat-i, etc., 

 or were considered feminine and inflected 

 diadema, diademae, 

 dogma, dogmae, 

 schema, schemae, etc., 



according as they were felt as genuine Latin words or as 

 Greek derivatives. Cicero took pains to show that he 

 thought dogma a Greek word by writing it with Greek 

 letters, 80'7/xa. So also we find oxy-gala, gen. oxy- 

 galact-is, neut., and also oxy-gala, -ae, fem., from 

 Greek 6!;v-ya\a,-yd,\atcTo<i, neut.; cata-r rhactes , -ae, 

 masc, and cata-rrhacta, -ae , fem., from Greek Kara- 

 ppd.KTr)<;,-ov, masc. ; etc. In almost every instance of change 

 of gender and inflection, we find, side by side with the Latin 

 change, Latin forms preserving the gender and inflection 

 of the Greek. 



38 (a) The gender of the genus name, when it is made 



a noun, depends, therefore, not on the termination, but 

 upon the gender of the noun forming the final element of 

 the compound. 



This rule is the only one that can have any philological 

 basis. It is deduced from the practice of the classical 



