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§261. Denominative Verbs

Some verbs of the Third Conjugation in -uō, -uere, are formed from noun-stems in u- and have lost a consonant i:—

  • statuō (for † statu-yō), -ere, to set up, from status, position.
  • metuō, -ere, to fear, from metus, fear.
  • acuō, -ere, to sharpen, from acus, needle.
  • arguō, -ere, to clear up, from inherited stem †argu-, bright (cf. ἄργυρος).

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.