-aste

See also: aste, astē, and Äste

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -āvistis (via -āsti).[1] Example: Italian lodaste, from Latin laudavistis.

Suffix

-aste

  1. Used with a stem to form the second-person past historic and imperfect subjunctive of regular -are verbs

References
  1. Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 145
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