What is 'S' in latin grammar. Singular or something else?

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Actually, Latin word ‘to hunt’ is venor, ‘tion’ is not a Latin suffix. Words ending in an ‘s’ in Latin can mean many things, depending whether it is a noun, verb, masculine, feminine, etc. For example: the singular word for house or home in latin in domus. I think the singular ‘I hunt’ in Latin is venatio, but I am pretty rusty. The plural present for ‘we hunt’ should be venatamus.

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