-ește
(Redirected from -eşte)
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From -esc. Compare Aromanian -eashti. Cf. also Albanian -ishte.
Suffix edit
-ește
- adverbial form of -esc
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
A form of the infix -esc-, from Latin -ēscō, in this case -ēscit. Cognates include Aromanian -eashti, Italian -isce, Spanish -ece.
Alternative forms edit
Suffix edit
-ește
- Used with a stem to form the third-person singular present of most regular -i (fourth conjugation) verbs. E.g. unește, tușește, ferește, pățește, urăște.