In Latin, the neuter has a distinct form. In Romanian, it’s a combination: masculine in singular and feminine in plural. What the article does is it takes a loo

In Latin, the neuter has a distinct form. In Romanian, it’s a combination: masculine in singular and feminine in plural. What the article does is it takes a look at these differences and merely states the obvious, that the Romanian neuter is ambigenous, thus the Latin neuter (as a third, distinct, form) didn’t make it.