Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin -īvit (via -īut and -ìo).[1] Example: Italian finì, from Latin finivit.

Suffix edit

(non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

  1. used with a stem to form the third-person singular past historic of regular -ire verbs

References edit

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