-asti

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Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

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-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

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

Anagrams

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Suffix

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-āstī

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

Descendants

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