-asti

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asti"

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

-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

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

Anagrams

• -ista, sita, stai, stia

Latin

Alternative forms

• -āvistī (regular)

Suffix

-āstī

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: -ash, -ashi
  • Romanian: -ași
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: -asti
  • Neapolitan: -aste
  • Sicilian: -asti
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: -és
  • Old French: -as
    • French: -as
• Occitano-Romance:
  • ⇒ Catalan: -ares
  • Gascon: -ès ⇒ -ères
  • ⇒ Occitan: -ères
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: -es
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: -asti, -esti
    • Leonese: -esti
    • Mirandese: -iste
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: -aste, -asche, -asche
    • Galician: -aches, -ache
    • Portuguese: -aste
    • Galician: -aches, -ache
  • Spanish: -aste