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Latin
Etymology
From some syncopated form of potis still whole in utpote.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-pte
- A particle usually affixed to the ablative singular of these adjectives (meus, tuus, suus, noster, vester) most frequently to that of suus in order to express more emphatically that a thing belongs to a person as contrasted with what is not his own
Suapte manu.- With its own hand.
Meopte ingenio.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- ‘ sonitū suopte | tintinant aurēs’ ― Catul.51
- ‘ with its own sound | the ears are ringing’
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