Muke

:::It should decline like '[[hostis]]' (which is an i-stem found as masculine). As for the ablative singular, sources differ on that—some will say ''-i'', some offer ''-i'' or ''-e'' at your choice, and some will say, for a word like this used in two ways, that ''-i'' is better for adjectival use and ''-e'' better for substantive use.

:::{{sihler|sectio=306.7}} supports the latter, stating -i is "characteristic of certain nouns, including most neuters, and is regular for adjectives. But in the majority of nouns the ''-e'' of the consonant stems is usual." Allen and Greenough [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001&query=head%3D%2335] list ''-i'' as an ending that is 'lost' in the ablative singular for nouns, except in a few circumstances, including neuters—near the bottom of that page is a list of words with ablative ''-i.'' Under the adjective declension [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001&query=head%3D%2360] it indicates that the adjective of two terminations keeps ''-i''. Admittedly, neither source appears to explicitly state whether an adjective used substantively will bear the adjective or the substantive ending; Betts does so in ''TY Latin'' ("'''I-''' stem adjectives have an ablative singulsar in '''-e''' when used as nouns; from '''adulescens''' ''young'' we could say either '''ab adulescentī homine''' or '''ab adulescente''' with the same meaning ''by a young person''.) Our template [[Template:declinatio-3i-adj-2]] for third-declension i-stem adjectives of two terminations reflects this (though not the advice about neuters, I see). —[[Usor:Mycēs|Mucius <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Tever</span>]] 00:25, 12 Martii 2008 (UTC)