STEMS IN #-ā-#.
_The First Declension._
Genitive singular #-ae#, genitive plural #-ā-rum#.
432. Stems in #-ā-# include substantives and adjectives; both
substantives and adjectives are feminine.
433. Names of males are masculine (405): as, #scrība#, _writer_; also
#Hadria#, _the Adriatic_, and rarely #damma#, _deer_, and #talpa#,
_mole_.
434. The nominative of stems in #-ā-# ends in the shortened stem vowel
#-a#.