[i] ārs ¦ [ii] grātiā ¦ [iii] artis
art [nominative] ¦ for the sake ¦ of art
[genitive]
ārs: a third declension noun
Nominative: ārs
Genitive: art ¦ is
You can see there’s a change in the stem of
the noun before the ending -is added.
So, the MGM lion is telling you a key principal of the 3rd
declension:
Many 3rd declension nouns change the stem. And
while you cannot always predict what that stem change will be, there are many
where you can, because you already knew that stem change: it’s in the English
noun art.
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