boot verb
English
Etymology
So called because these verbs form a boot-like shape when highlighted in a conjugation table.
Noun
boot verb (plural boot verbs)
- Any of various verbs, generally in Romance languages, in which the first and second persons plural are affected differently by some phonological or morphological rule than the other four forms.
- A verb in Italian so affected in the second and third persons singular.
Synonyms
- shoe verb