See also: -i and Appendix:Variations of "i"

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -īvit (via -īut and -ìo).[1] Example: Italian finì, from Latin finivit.

Suffix

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

References

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