-pte

See also: Pte

Latin

Etymology

From some syncopated form of potis still whole in utpote.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pte/, [pt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pte/, [pt̪e]

Suffix

-pte

1. A particle usually affixed to the ablative singular of these adjectives (meus, tuus, suus, noster, vester) most frequently to that of suus in order to express more emphatically that a thing belongs to a person as contrasted with what is not his own
   • ego meaning "I" → mepte
   • suus → suapte

   Suapte manu.

   With its own hand.

   • suo → suopte

     Suopte pondere.

     By its own (weight).

   • meo → meopte

   Meopte ingenio.

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   ‘[…] sonitū suopte | tintinant aurēs’ ― Catul.51

   ‘[…] with its own sound | the ears are ringing’

See also

• -met