-asti

From Latin -āstī, short counterpart to -āvistī. For example, Italian lodasti, < Latin laudā(vi)stī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.ti/
• Rhymes: -asti
• Hyphenation: -à‧sti

-asti (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

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

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

• -ista, sita, stai, stia

• -āvistī (regular)

-āstī

1. (poetic, syncopated, rare) second-person singular perfect active indicative of -ō (first conjugation; verbs with the perfect infix -av-)