Etymology

accusativus cum infinitivo

Today it means: A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements. Full definition →

Latin accūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromaccūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō
  2. English todayaccusativus cum infinitivo

Learned borrowing from Latin accūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō (literally “accusative [case] with infinitive [mood]”).

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