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accusativi cum infinitivis

accusativi cum infinitivis is the plural of accusativus cum infinitivo.

Meaning of accusativus cum infinitivo

Noun

accusativus cum infinitivo (usually uncountable, plural accusativi cum infinitivis)

  1. (usually) A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements.
    • A historico-typological analysis of Greek and Latin infinitival structures, and that of Greek and Latin accusativi cum infinitivis, and nominativi cum infinitivis does not only mean the clearer understanding of the syntactical system of the languages concerned, but it can also elucidate the...1972, Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae: Sectio Classica, volume I, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, page 9

Questions about accusativi cum infinitivis

What is accusativi cum infinitivis the plural of?
Accusativi cum infinitivis is the plural of accusativus cum infinitivo.

Words near accusativi cum infinitivis in the dictionary

  1. accusatively
  2. accusativeness
  3. accusatives
  4. accusatives absolute
  5. accusatives cognate
  6. accusativi cum infinitivis
  7. accusativism
  8. accusativity
  9. accusativus cum infinitivo
  10. accusator
  11. accusatorial

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