-pte
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See also: Pte
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From some syncopated form of potis still whole in utpote.
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-pte
- A particle usually affixed to the ablative singular of these adjectives (meus, tuus, suus, noster, vester) most frequently to that of suus in order to express more emphatically that a thing belongs to a person as contrasted with what is not his own
- Suapte manu.
- With its own hand.
- Meopte ingenio.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- ‘[…] sonitū suopte | tintinant aurēs’ ― Catul.51
- ‘[…] with its own sound | the ears are ringing’