accusativus cum infinitivo (English, noun)
expansion: accusativus cum infinitivo (usually uncountable, plural accusativi cum infinitivis)
Senses:
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glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: accusativi cum infinitivis
tags: plural
form: ACI
tags: alternative