Meanings
- not comparablegrammarOf or relating to the perfect passive participle.
Perfect passive participial forms may only be translated (literally) in the active voice if the verb is deponent, that is, as having suffered rather than as (B) having been suffered.
2006, Ronald B. Palma, “Deponent Vebs”, in The Best Test Preparation for the SAT Subject Test: Latin, Piscataway, N.J.: Research & Education Association, →ISBN, section 5 (Indicative Verbs), page 2602 more examples
The Latin uses these perfect passive participial clauses much more frequently than they are used by the English, as we shall see when we come to discuss Latin clause-forms. Thus: “Ante Roman conditam,” Lit. “before Rome having been founded,” etc.
1871 May, Oread [pseudonym], “English Grammar, No. 8. The Participial Clause.—Continued.”, in John Kneeland, editor, The Massachusetts Teacher: […], volume XXIV (3rd series, volume VI), number 5, Boston, Mass.: Mass. Teachers’ Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 156The Perfect Passive Participial Stem: which is used to form the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses of the passive and also the future active and perfect passive participles, infinitives, and the supine.
1930, Clyde Pharr, “Grammatical Appendix”, in Vergil’s Aenid: Books I-VI […] (The Heath Latin Series), Boston, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, →OCLC, page 27
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