-ii
See also Appendix:Variations of "ii"
Italian
Etymology
From Latin -īvī (via -īī).[1] Example: Italian finii, from Latin finivi.
Suffix
-ii
- Used with a stem to form the first-person singular past historic of regular -ire verbs
References
- ^ 2002, Giuseppe Patota, Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page p. 145:
Latin
Suffix
-iī
- nominative masculine plural of -ius
- genitive masculine singular of -ius
- genitive neuter singular of -ius
- vocative masculine plural of -ius
Suffix
-ii
- nominalizer
Usage notes
Example: from the verb hataał (“he sings”) + -ii, we can make a noun for hataałii (“singer”)