-asti

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin -āstī, short counterpart to -āvistī. For example, Italian lodasti, < Latin laudā(vi)stī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.sti/
  • Rhymes: -asti
  • Hyphenation: -à‧sti

Suffix

-asti (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

  1. used with a stem to form the second-person singular past historic of regular -are verbs

References

  • Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 145

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Suffix

-āstī

  1. (poetic, syncopated, rare) second-person singular perfect active indicative of (first conjugation; verbs with the perfect infix -av-)

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