-ò
See also: o, O, -o, -ó, and Appendix:Variations of "o"
Italian
Etymology
From earlier -ao, from Vulgar Latin *-aut, from Classical Latin -āvit.[1]Example: Italian lodò, from Latin laudavit.
Suffix
-ò (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form the third-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