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Italian
Etymology
From Latin -īverunt (via -īru). In the thirteenth century, the Italian form was -iro, which later was extended to -irono under influence of verb endings like -ano and -ono.[1]
Example: Italian finirono, from Latin finiverunt.
Suffix
-irono (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form the third-person plural past historic of regular -ire verbs
References
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 146
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