-erebbe

Italian

Etymology

From -er- + -ebbe.

-er- is the reduced form of the Italian infinitive endings -are and -ere.
-ebbe stems from Vulgar Latin hĕbuit, which stems from classical Latin habuit, third-person singular perfect of habeō.[1]

See -erei.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eˈrɛb.be/, /eˈreb.be/
Rhymes: -ɛbbe, -ebbe
Hyphenation: -e‧rèb‧be, -e‧réb‧be

Suffix

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

used with a stem to form the third-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

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