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
Thanks,
dlb
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Deus me ducet, non ratio.
Observito Quam Educatio Melius Est.
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Re: Dictionary entries
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
I had an inkling but wasn't quite sure that was the reason. Thanks for your response.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.
Deus me ducet, non ratio.
Observito Quam Educatio Melius Est.
Observito Quam Educatio Melius Est.