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accusativus cum infinitivo

accusativus cum infinitivo noun: 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.

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
    • Thus we must differentiate between the accusativi cum infinitivis after the two groups of verbs already on account of this, although this has not been thought necessary by anybody so far.ibidem, page 11

Forms of accusativus cum infinitivo

pluralaccusativi cum infinitivis
alternative formACI

Origin of accusativus cum infinitivo

Learned borrowing from Latin accūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō (literally “accusative [case] with infinitive [mood]”).

Questions about accusativus cum infinitivo

What does accusativus cum infinitivo mean?
Accusativus cum infinitivo means 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.
What part of speech is accusativus cum infinitivo?
Accusativus cum infinitivo is a noun.
What is the plural of accusativus cum infinitivo?
The plural of accusativus cum infinitivo is accusativi cum infinitivis.

Words near accusativus cum infinitivo in the dictionary

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

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