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Re: latin verb examples and tense meanings

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Thursday, January 13, 2000, 21:59
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." >