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Verbo dimoſtra qualche coſa ò per alcuno, ò per alcuni fatta; com’è; Amo, Contemplo; Amarono, Contemplarono
[Verbo dimostra qualche cosa o per alcuno, o per alcuni fatta […]]
A verb expresses something done by one, or more ; such as amo, contemplo, amarono, contemplarono
1744, Jacopo Angelo Nelli, “Del modo di conoscere l'Attivo ed il Passivo [How to recognize the active and the passive]”, in Grammatica italiana: per uso de' giovanetti [Italian Grammar: for use by young people], Turin: Stamperia Reale, Del Verbo, page 40:
QUando ſi trovaſſe difficoltà ne’ giovanetti in conoſcer, quando il verbo è attivo, o paſſivo, potrà loro farſi oſſervare nella declinazione […] ſe la prima perſona, o ſeconda, o terza fa, o ſoffre l’azione
[Quando si trovasse difficoltà ne' giovanetti in conoscer, quando il verbo è attivo, o passivo, potrà loro farsi osservare, nella declinazione […] se la prima persona, o seconda, o terza fa, o soffre l'azione]
Should the youths have difficulty recognizing whether the verb is active or passive, they can be made to observe, in the declension, whether the first, or second, or third person performs or experiences the action
verbo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)