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dlb
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Why do some Latin dictionaries show all of the principal parts of some verbs and not of others?
For example, Cassells shows:
Repeto -ere -ivi and -ii -itum
but
Reporto -are
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dlb
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Grochojad
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Because "reporto" is "regular", as most of first conjugation verbs it goes -o -are -avi -atum. There is no such regularity with 2nd and 3rd declension and so all the principal parts are given.

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Re: Dictionary entries

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Grochojad wrote:Because "reporto" is "regular", as most of first conjugation verbs it goes -o -are -avi -atum. There is no such regularity with 2nd and 3rd declension and so all the principal parts are given.
I had an inkling but wasn't quite sure that was the reason. Thanks for your response.
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