Questions tagged [syncopated-perfect]
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Is Nescibat valid for Nesciēbat?
Encountered the word nescibat in a text where other version of the same text reads nesciebat. I'm not sure if nescibat is a valid spelling variant [there are legitimate different spellings between ...
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How do we know how -iī and -iit perfects were stressed?
The question Are there exceptions to the Latin stress rules? has an answer by Joel Derfner saying that the first-person singular perfect forms dormiī, audiī, veniī (for dormīvī, audīvī, venīvī) have ...
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Do contracted perfects have long or short vowels?
Many verbs have a suffix -v- in the perfect tense, which tends to disappear (or "contract" or "syncopate") before the ending: amā- > amāvisti > amāsti "you loved", audī- > audīvisti > audīsti "you ...
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Understanding "audieritis" in Psalm 94
Consider the following excerpt from Psalm 94 in the Vulgate.
Hódie, si vocem eius audiéritis, nolíte obduráre corda vestra, sicut in exacerbatióne secúndum diem tentatiónis in desérto: ubi ...
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When did unsyncopated forms become archaic?
I'd always learned that the regular way to say "you loved" was amāvisti, with the "syncopated" version amāsti being poetic and uncommon.
However, Unbrutal_Russian says differently (with good ...
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Can I contract with an irregular perfect stem in v?
I know that if I have a regular first conjugation verb, I can contract some forms.
For example, amavisti and amaverunt can become amasti and amarunt, and I have come across such forms repeatedly.
Can ...
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Contracted perfect and historical infinitive
The present infinitive is sometimes used as a predicate in a past tense sentence.
The use context is similar to praesens historicum.
My grammar gives two examples:
Nihil Galli respondere, sed in ...
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