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Cererus
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Latin
Pronunciation
Cererus
Proper noun
la proper noun form
la Old Latin rare la Ceres gen s
la CIL 10 05191 Agria Sucia N(umeri) f(ilia) / sacerdos / Ce/rer(us) et Venerus
Usage notes
This form shows the rare genitive singular ending la -us instead of the standard Classical Latin ending la -is. This unique ending is poorly attested and largely exclusive to religious or legal documents.
References
en en la Coleman Robert 1990 Dialectal Variation in Republican Latin, with Special Reference to Praenestine https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696679? Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 36 (216) 8 0068-6735