§209. First Conjugation
There are about 360 simple verbs of the First Conjugation, most of them formed directly on a noun-or adjective-stem:
- armō, arm (arma, arms); caecō, to blind (caecus, blind); exsulō, be an exile (exsul, an exile) (§ 259).
Their conjugation is usually regular, like amō; though of many only a few forms are found in use.
a. The following verbs form their Perfect and Supine stems irregularly. Those marked * have also regular forms.
| crepō, crepuī (-crepāvī), -crepit-, resound. | plicō, *-plicuī, *-plicit-, fold. |
| cubō, * cubuī, -cubit-, lie down. | pōtō, pōtāvī, *pōt-, drink. |
| dō, dăre, dedī, dăt-, give (DA). | secō, secuī, sect-, cut. |
| domō, domuī, domit-, subdue. | sonō, sonuī, sonit-,1 sound. |
| fricō, fricuī, *frict-, rub. | stō, stetī, -stat- (-stit-), stand. |
| iuvō ( ad-iuvō), iūvī, iūt-,1 help. | tonō, tonuī, *-tonit-, thunder. |
| micō, micuī, ----, glitter. | vetō, vetuī, vetit-, forbid. |
| necō, * necuī, necāt- (-nect-), kill. 2 |
- crepō: con-crepuī, dis-crepuī or -crepāvī; in-crepuī or -crepāvī.
- dō: circum-, inter-, pessum-, satis-, super-, vēnum-dō, -dedī, -dat-, of the first conjugation. Other compounds belong to the root DHA, put, and are of the third conjugation: as, condō, condĕre, condidī, conditum.
- micō: dī-micāvī, -micāt-; ē-micuī, -micāt-.
- plicō: re-, sub- (sup-), multi-plicō, -plicāvī, -plicāt-; ex-plicō (unfold), -uī, -it-; (explain), -āvī, -āt-; im-plicō, -āvī (-uī), -ātum (-itum).
- stō: cōn-stō, -stitī, (-stātūrus); ad, re-stō, -stitī, ----; ante- (anti-), inter-, superstō, -stetī, ----; circum-stō, -stetī (-stitī), ----; prae-stō, -stitī, -stit- (-stāt-); dī-stō, ex-stō, no perfect or supine (future participle ex-stātūrus).
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.