Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Latin declension templates/reply (11)

Classical Latin grammarians did not distinguish the parts of speech the same way we do. Nouns and adjectives were together a single grammatical category. The templates do not indicate the part of speech they're used for because they don't align with parts of speech as we use them on Wiktionary. Some of the "adjective" templates are used for participles or nouns, as I've already indicated.

Russian is a different situation, becuase of the very large number of patterns.

Splitting up the Latin declension category would mean that someone looking for a particular declension pattern, and not finding it where expected, might create a new template that duplicates an already existing template that simply wasn't in the category he was looking for. I've had that problem in other languages. But, with Latin, all the declension pattern tables are in a single location, so that shouldn't happen. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:29, 1 April 2012 (UTC)