-aste

See also: aste, Aste, astē, and Äste

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -āstis, short counterpart to -āvistis. For example, Italian lodaste, < Latin laudā(vi)stis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ste/
• Rhymes: -aste
• Hyphenation: -à‧ste

Suffix

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

1. used with a stem to form the second-person past historic and imperfect subjunctive of regular -are verbs

References

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

Anagrams

• seta, tesa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• -asche (Galicia)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin -āstī, short counterpart to -āvistī.

Suffix

-aste (1st conj.)

1. a suffix indicating the second-person singular preterite indicative of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-aste → ‎amaste (“[you] loved”)

   ‎matar (“to kill”) + ‎-aste → ‎mataste (“[you] killed”)

Descendants

• Galician: -aches, -ache
• Portuguese: -aste

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -aste, from Latin -āstī, short counterpart to -āvistī. Cognate with Galician -aches and Spanish -aste.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.tɨ/

Suffix

-aste

1. a suffix indicating the second-person singular preterite indicative of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-aste → ‎amaste (“[you] loved”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-aste → ‎cantaste (“[you] sang”)

See also

• -este
• -iste

Spanish

Alternative forms

• -astes (nonstandard, proscribed)

Etymology

From Latin -āstī, short counterpart to -āvistī.

Suffix

-aste

1. Suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative preterite of -ar verbs.

See also

• -iste