Latin word of the day: incola, ae

Latin word of the day: incola, ae

Part of speech: noun

Declension: first

Gender: masculine or feminine

Meaning in English: native inhabitant

Nominative singular: incola

Nominative plural: incolae

Genitive singular: incolae

Genitive plural: incolarum

Dative singular: incolae

Dative plural: incolis

Accusative singular: incolam

Accusative plural: incolas

Ablative singular: incola

Ablative plural: incolis

Vocative singular: incola

Vocative plural: incolas

I can't insert macrons over letters on this blog. However, I'd like to remind myself that what distinguishes the ablative singular from the nominative and vocative singular is the presence in the ablative singular of a bar above the final 'a', indicating that it is a long 'a'. 

The word 'lemma' keeps coming up. The dictionary says this means the citation form of a word, when the word has multiple forms. For example, the English word 'to go' has derivative forms of 'went', 'going', 'gone', etc., but the 'lemma', or citation form, the one you'd look for in a dictionary, is 'go'.