suffix
-pte
-pte
Classical[ptɛ]Ecclesiastical[pte]
Meaning
- morphemeA particle usually affixed to the ablative singular of these adjectives (meus, tuus, suus, noster, vester) most frequently to that of suus in order to express more emphatically that a thing belongs to a person as contrasted with what is not his own
ego meaning "I" → mepte
suus → suapte
Origins
From some syncopated form of potis still whole in utpote.