-asti

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asti"

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa.sti/
Rhymes: -asti
Hyphenation: -à‧sti

Suffix

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

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

References

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

Anagrams

-ista, sita, stai, stia

Latin

Alternative forms

-āvistī (regular)

Suffix

-āstī

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

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: -ash, -ashi
- Romanian: -ași
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: -asti
- Neapolitan: -aste
- Sicilian: -asti
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: -és
- Old French: -as
  - French: -as
Occitano-Romance:
- ⇒ Catalan: -ares
- Gascon: -ès ⇒ -ères
- ⇒ Occitan: -ères
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: -es
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
  - Asturian: -asti, -esti
  - Leonese: -esti
  - Mirandese: -iste
- Old Galician-Portuguese: -aste, -asche, -asche
  - Galician: -aches, -ache
  - Portuguese: -aste
  - Galician: -aches, -ache
- Spanish: -aste

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