§212. Fourth Conjugation
There are—besides a few deponents and some regular derivatives in -ŭriō, as, ēsuriō, be hungry (cf. § 263. 4)—about 60 verbs of this conjugation, a large proportion of them being descriptive verbs: like—
- crōciō, croak; mūgiō, bellow; tinniō, tinkle.
a. Most verbs of the Fourth Conjugation are conjugated regularly, like audiō, though a number lack the supine.
b. The following verbs show special peculiarities:—
| amiciō, amixī (-cuī), amict-, clothe. | saepiō, saepsī, saept-, hedge in. |
| aperiō, aperuī, apert-, open. | saliō (-siliō), saluī ( saliī), [salt- (-sult-)], leap. |
| comperiō, -perī, compert-, find. | |
| farciō, farsī, fartum, stuff. | sanciō [SAC], sānxī, sānct-, sanction. |
| feriō, ----, ----, strike. | sarciō, sarsī, sart-, patch. |
| fulciō, fulsī, fult-, prop. | sentiō, sēnsī, sēns-, feel. |
| nauriō, hausī, haust- ( hausūrus), drain. | sepeliō, sepelīvī, sepult-, bury. |
| operiō, operuī, opert-, cover. | veniō, vēnī, vent-, come. |
| reperiō, repperī, repert-, find. | vinciō, vīnxī, vīnct-, bind. |
For Index of Verbs, see pp. 436 ff.
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.