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portentus m ‎(feminine portenta, neuter portentum); first/second declension

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
nominative	portentus	portenta	portentum	portentī	portentae	portenta
genitive	portentī	portentae	portentī	portentōrum	portentārum	portentōrum
dative	portentō	portentae	portentō	portentīs
accusative	portentum	portentam	portentum	portentōs	portentās	portenta
ablative	portentō	portentā	portentō	portentīs
vocative	portente	portenta	portentum	portentī	portentae	portenta

portentus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
portentus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “portentus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
- (ambiguous) marvellous ideas; prodigies: monstra or portenta