verb profici
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verb profici
I thought this might be the present passive of proficio but this verb has no passive so I looked at the paradigms of similar verbs but no luck. What verb does it belong to? Is it a syncopated form?
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Re: verb profici
It is the present infinitive passive of proficio.
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Re: verb profici
This is what I thought at first but I consulted wiki but wiki said this verb has no passive forms. I guess wiki is not so reliable.
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Re: verb profici
Try logeion instead, which has also a morphological tool.
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Re: verb profici
Yeah, it's not. Think of it as a largely unfinished but constantly improving work (even if its improvements sometimes come about slowly).
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Re: verb profici
See OLD proficio, definition 1b: proficio used in the impersonal passive. Note that a number of intransitive verbs are used in the impersonal passive.
The OLD's first exemplary quote is from Cicero Sest. 60 (Pro Sestio) which shows a use of the passive infinitive profici as impersonal with aliquid as subject accusative.
M. Cato, etiam cum iam desperasset aliquid auctoritate sua profici posse, Marcus Cato, even now when he had already despaired that anything was able to be done upon his own authority...
The OLD's first exemplary quote is from Cicero Sest. 60 (Pro Sestio) which shows a use of the passive infinitive profici as impersonal with aliquid as subject accusative.
M. Cato, etiam cum iam desperasset aliquid auctoritate sua profici posse, Marcus Cato, even now when he had already despaired that anything was able to be done upon his own authority...