Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin -ārunt, short counterpart to -āvērunt. In the thirteenth century, the Italian form was -aro, which later was extended to -arono under the influence of verb endings like -ano and -ono.[1] Example: Italian lodarono, from Latin laudā(vē)runt.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ro.no/
  • Rhymes: -arono
  • Hyphenation: -à‧ro‧no

Suffix

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-arono (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

  1. used with a stem to form the third person plural past historic of regular -are verbs

References

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  1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 145

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