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plecto
plecto
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplɛk.toː/
Verb
plectō (present infinitive plectere, perfect active plexī, supine plexum); third conjugation
Inflection
- The third principal part (and its forms) may be either plexī or plexuī.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-. Cognate with plangō, plāga, and Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō), πλήττω (plḗttō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpleːk.toː/
Verb
plēctō (present infinitive plēctere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
Inflection
- No perfect or participle forms.
| Conjugation of plecto (third conjugation, defective, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | plēctō | plēctis | plēctit | plēctimus | plēctitis | plēctunt |
| imperfect | plēctēbam | plēctēbās | plēctēbat | plēctēbāmus | plēctēbātis | plēctēbant | |
| future | plēctam | plēctēs | plēctet | plēctēmus | plēctētis | plēctent | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | plēctam | plēctās | plēctat | plēctāmus | plēctātis | plēctant |
| imperfect | plēcterem | plēcterēs | plēcteret | plēcterēmus | plēcterētis | plēcterent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | plēcte | — | — | plēctite | — |
| future | — | plēctitō | plēctitō | — | plēctitōte | plēctuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | plēctere | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | plēctēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| plēctere | plēctendī | plēctendō | plēctendum | — | — | ||
Derived terms
References
- plecto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- plecto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plecto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.