Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PART FIRST — WORDS AND FORMS, SECOND DECLENSION (o-STEMS), Case-Forms in the Second Declension, chapter 50

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[*] 50. The following stems in ero-, in which e belongs to the stem, retain the e throughout and are declined like puer (§ 47):—

adulter, adulterer;	gener, son-in-law;	puer, boy;
socer, father-in-law;	vesper, evening;	Līber, Bacchus.

Also, the adjective līber, free, of which līberī, children, is the plural (§ 111. a), and compounds in -fer and -ger (stem fero-, gero-): as, lūcifer, morning star; armiger, squire.

[*] a. An old nominative socerus occurs. So vocative puere, boy, as if from †puerus (regularly puer ).

[*] b. Vir, man, has genitive virī; the adjective satur, sated, has saturī; vesper, evening, has ablative vespere (locative vesperī, in the evening).

[*] c. Mulciber, Vulcan, has -berī and -brī in the genitive. The barbaric names Hibēr and Celtibēr retain ē throughout.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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