Feles ex cellario exit et murem quaerit.

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Breakdown of Feles ex cellario exit et murem quaerit.

• exire: to go out
• quaerere: to look for
• feles: the cat

Questions & Answers about Feles ex cellario exit et murem quaerit.

Why is feles the subject of the sentence?

Because feles is in the nominative singular, which is the case normally used for the subject in Latin. The verb forms exit and quaerit are both third-person singular, so they match a singular subject: the cat.

Why does feles end in -s? It does not look like a typical first- or second-declension noun.

Feles is a third-declension noun. Its dictionary form is feles, felis, meaning cat. Not all Latin nouns follow the very common -a or -us/-um patterns, so this is a good example of a different declension pattern.

Why is it ex cellario and not just cellario by itself?

The preposition ex means out of or from inside. It needs a noun in the ablative case, so cellario is ablative singular.

So:

• ex = out of / from
• cellario = from the cellar/store-room

Together, ex cellario means out of the cellar.

Why is cellario in the ablative case?