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accusativus cum infinitivo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements.

Word forms

accusativus cum infinitivo accusativi cum infinitivis ACI

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō (literally “accusative [case] with infinitive [mood]”).

Related words

nominativus cum infinitivo
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