-eresti
Italian
Etymology
From -er- + -esti.
- -er- is the reduced form of the Italian infinitive endings -are and -ere.
- -esti stems from Vulgar Latin hĕbuisti, which stems from classical Latin habuistī, second-person singular perfect of habeō.[1]
See Italian -erei.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈres.ti/
- Rhymes: -esti
- Hyphenation: -e‧ré‧sti
Suffix
-eresti (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form the second-person singular conditional of regular -are and -ere verbs
References
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 153