Comprehensive N-2C Noun List Second Declension Neuter Nouns All neuter nouns whose vocalic ending is omīkron belong to the second declension. For this reason, the second declension is called the omīkrondeclension. Case Formation The case endings for second declension neuter nouns are indicated below in red. Comments concerning their formation follow. The neuter noun will serve as the n-2c paradigm. Listen (work, deed, action) + case ending Cases n-2c Singular Plural Article Noun Article Noun Nominative 1 2 Genitive 3, 7 4, 7 Dative 7 5, 7 Accusative 1 2 Vocative 6 2, 6 Vocative 1, 6 2, 6 1. The neuter nominative, accusative, and vocative singular and plural forms are identical. This is different from n-2a/n-2b second declension vocative singular nouns that normally exhibit a separate form than its nominative singular. The context in which the neuter noun occurs determines its grammatical function. 2. In the nominative, accusative, and vocative plural forms, the omīkron has been irregularly absorbed by the alpha (and not because of contraction). The final alpha is pronounced short in all neuter nominative, vocative, and accusative plural noun forms. 3. As in second declension masculine and feminine nouns, the actual case ending is omīkron. However due to the undesired combination with the stem vowel omīkron, contraction occurs.
Page SA7:68 4. As in second declension masculine and feminine nouns, the stem vowel omīkron has been irregularly absorbed by the ōmega, and not because of contraction as in the genitive singular. 5. At some time during the morphological development of the dative singular case ending, the stem vowel omīkron lengthened to ōmega, with the iōta retained as an iōta subscript. 6. The neuter vocative singular and plural case forms are identical to the nominative case endings. 7. The neuter second declension nouns are identical with the masculine and feminine case forms in the genitive and dative, in both the singular and the plural. It is important, therefore, to learn the gender of each noun as they are encountered. The above morphological comments are summarized in the following chart for second declension neuter nouns. Second Declension Neuter Nouns Singular Plural Nominative + + Genitive Dative + = (contraction) + = (contraction) (absorption) + (absorption) + Accusative + + (absorption) Vocative + + (absorption) Comprehensive List All second declension neuter nouns which occur in NTGreek are listed below with their frequency in parentheses. Alternate readings in the USB 4 are not cited. Nouns with a double dagger denote that the noun occurs in all three genders, which can be either masculine (n-2a), feminine (n-2b), or neuter (n-2c).
Page SA7:69 1. (1) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (6) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (1) 11. (1) 12. (2) 13. (1) 14. (1) 15. (3) 16. (20) 17. (3) 18. (30) 19. (1) 20. (2) 21. (4) 22. (2) 23. (2) [] 24. (1) 25. (4) 26. (3) 27. (34) 28. (2) 29. (5) 30. (2) 31. (1) 32. (2) 33. (4) 34. (1) 35. (61) 36. (10) 37. (1) 38. (16) 39. (25) 40. (4) 41. (16) 42. (2) 43. (12) 44. (2) 45. (8) 46. (1) 47. (1) 48. (19) 49. (1) 50. (1) 51. (11) 52. (11) 53. (1) 54. (1) 55. (169) 56. (2) 57. (1) 58. (4) 59. (2) 60. (75) 61. (8) 62. (23)
Page SA7:70 63. (2) 64. [] (1) 65. (3) 66. (7) 67. (5) 68. (46) 69. (4) 70. (2) 71. (1) 72. (23) 73. (70) 74. (62) 75. (6) 76. (2) 77. (1) 78. (60) 79. (2) 80. (2) 81. (4) 82. (2) 83. (1) 84. (2) 85. (1) 86. (1) 87. (2) 88. [] (1) 89. (1) 90. (8) 91. (4) 92. (5) 93. (2) 94. (3) 95. (1) 96. (1) 97. (4) 98. (1) 99. (4) 100. (2) 101. (2) 102. (4) 103. (2) 104. (2) 105. (1) 106. (19) 107. (4) 108. (1) 109. (14) 110. (8) 111. (1) 112. (40) 113. (3) 114. (1) 115. (14) 116. (28) 117. (1) 118. (1) 119. (1) 120. (20)
Page SA7:71 121. (5) 122. (2) 123. (1) 124. (6) 125. (12) 126. (3) 127. (4) 128. (5) 129. (4) 130. (1) 131. (52) 132. (1) 133. (1) 134. (1) 135. (2) 136. (2) 137. (14) 138. (1) 139. (2) 140. (1) 141. (5) 142. (67) 143. (5) 144. (31) 145. (8) 146. (3) 147. (1) 148. (39) 149. (1) 150. (1) 151. (1) 152. (76) 153. (1) 154. (2) 155. (2) 156. (1) 157. (67) 158. (2) 159. (2) 160. (1) 161. (2) 162. (75) 163. [] (1) 164. (1) 165. (1) 166. (15) 167. (1) 168. (1) 169. (9) 170. (4) 171. (6) 172. (11) 173. (7) 174. (7) 175. (1) 176. (4) 177. (4) 178. (8) 179. (2) 180. (22) 181. (1) 182. (1) 183. (1) 184. (2) 185. (14) 186. [] (4) 187. (1)
Page SA7:72 188. (8) 189. (99) 190. [] (3) 191. (1) 192. (1) 193. (1) 194. (1) 195. (2) 196. (4) 197. (2) 198. (1) 199. (7) 200. (1) 201. (1) 202. (1) 203. (6) 204. (1) 205. (1) 206. (1) 207. (6) X 208. (1) 209. (2) 210. (1) 211. (12) 212. (10) 213. (2) 214. (4) 215. (1) 216. (2) 217. (3) The actual count of neuter nouns in the second declension will vary some between lists in reference works. Some works include alternate readings in their calculations based upon different editions of the Greek New Testament, whereas the above list does not. Variant spellings are included with their primary spelling in the above list by brackets, whereas others will include them separately. In addition, some grammars cite forms that are adjectives, but are used exclusively as substantives in NTGreek. This will increase the total for second declension neuter nouns.