The Supine Stem may be found by dropping -um from the Supine. It is formed by adding t (or, by a phonetic change, s)—
a. To the present stem: as, amā-t-um, dēlē-t-um, audī-t-um.
b. To the root, with or without ĭ: as, cap-t-um (capiō, CAP), moni-t-um (moneō, MON used as root), cās-um (for †cad-t-um, CAD), lēc-t-um (LEG). 1
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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