English Explanatory Dictionary

boot verb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of various verbs, generally in Romance languages, in which the first and second persons plural are affected differently by some phonological or morphological rule than the other four forms.
A verb in Italian so affected in the second and third persons singular.

Word forms

boot verb boot verbs

Etymology

So called because these verbs form a boot-like shape when highlighted in a conjugation table.

Synonyms

shoe verb stem-changing verb

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