Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings

Deis gratias! Something conlangy to talk about!  Amare, monere,
tegere, audire ought to work nicely. These are the model verbs given
by Allen and Greenough in their Grammar.

amo     I love, I am loving, I do love
amabam  I loved, was loving, did love, used to love
amabo   love, shall love
amavi   loved, did love, have loved
amaveram had loved
amavero shall have loved

Spanish amo' derives from amavit:
amavit -> amaut -> amo(t) -> amo

Classical Latin is already doing this in _ire_, since both ivit and
iit are acceptable.

Padraic.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:

>hi,
>
>still unable to get ahold of a latin dictionary, would anyone be able to
>give me an example of a regular verb in each of the latin infinitives?
>(-âre, etc.)  i'll put them into verbix.com and use the conjugation in
>order to make jûdajca
>also, can anyone explain to me the usages of the different latin tenses?
>i was looking through my printout of "amâre" and i couldn't find the
>tense that yeilded the spanish preterit tense....none of what looked like
>"past" tenses seemed to be the ancestor of -é, -aste, -ó, etc.
>
>thanks,
>
>
>-Stephen (Steg)
> "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."
>