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-ĭtus tended to develop for -ui perfects, on the model of future participles
such as caniturus, bibiturus, nasciturus, moriturus, ruiturus, so bibitus,
parcitus (with parsus matching parsi), tollitus, impulitus, vincitus,
lambitus, with traces of the approaching change to -ūtus as well.
5. The -ui perfects which survived in Romance. The chief verbs to
have survived to later times with -ui perfects or the equivalent are: iacere,
placere, tacere, licere, nocere, decere (slight traces in It.), habere, debere,
movere, calere, dolere, olere, solere, valere, parere, tenere, sedere, (in
part videre, implere, (sub)monere), cadere, capere, sapere, posse, velle
(all showing -ēre infinitives on the whole); fremere, gemere, tremere,
timere, vomere, (in part premere, redimere), recipere and the other
-cipere verbs, eripere, attribuere, battuere, fut(t)uere, consuere,
conspuere, bibere, fervere, pluere, rumpere, lambere, vincere, (in part
sequi, vertere), cognoscere, crescere, pascere, experg(isc)ere, irasci,
nasci, miscere, texere, (in part vivere), colere, molere, (in part tollere,
solvere, volvere, frangere, legere, eligere, trahere, traicere, credere,
currere), cernere, sternere, with infinitives in -ĕre for the most part
(timēre, miscēre were largely attracted); and in the -īre conjugation
venīre, with a few other verbs that show isolated forms. Of these, as we
have seen above, those with classical -ui perfects remain largely
unchanged in late Latin (except for, e.g., forms like tenerit, volerit,
poterit), in fact, considering the amount of fluctuation in general, they
form a very stable block, so we would be justified in expecting -ui
forms in the daughter languages. The late Latin fluctuations are found
for the most part in the verbs which adopted -ui forms later, so here
we might expect a variety of forms in the Romance languages.
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