See also: o, O, -o, , and Appendix:Variations of "o"

Italian

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Etymology

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From earlier -ao, from Vulgar Latin *-aut, from Classical Latin -āvit.[1] Example: Italian lodò, from Latin laudavit.

Suffix

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(non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

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

References

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