Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PART FIRST — WORDS AND FORMS, THIRD DECLENSION (CONSONANT AND i-STEMS), Greek Nouns of the Third Declension, chapter 81

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[*] 81. Many nouns originally Greek—mostly proper names— retain Greek forms of inflection. So especially—

Genitive singular in -os, as, tigridos .
Accusative singular in -a, as, aethera .
Vocative singular like the stem, as, Periclē , Orpheu, Atlā.
Nominative plural in -ĕs, as, hērōĕs.
Accusative plural in -ăs, as, hērōăs .

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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