book-of-flights:inkies-tvblog:Veni! Vidi! Veterni.SO. MUCH. GPOY.LIKE, RIGHT NOW.That is cute, but t

book-of-flights:inkies-tvblog:Veni! Vidi! Veterni.SO. MUCH. GPOY.LIKE, RIGHT NOW.That is cute, but the veterni is not a real Latin verb form.  Veternus, as a noun (veternus, veterni, m.), means “old age” or “lethargy” or “drowsiness,” but as an adjective (veternus, veterna, veternum), it means “ancient.”  As it stands, this “Veni, Vidi, Veterni” means “I came, I saw, of “drowsiness” or something like that.  I suppose “I took a nap” could be rendered as conquievi (from conquiescere) in Latin.But let us treat this veterni as a perfect form of a verb.  What would the other principal parts be?  That is difficult to determine.  First, it is possible to turn the noun veternus into a denominative verb veterno, veternare, and then have it mean something like “to have nap” (a special meaning deriving from “to have drowsiness”), then have the perfect veternavi, but that is not what we have here.  Second, there are many different sorts of verbs whose perfect forms have -i (naturally), but have neither an intervening -s- (e.g. carpsi, dixi for dic-s-i) or -u- (e.g. debui) or -v- (e.g. amavi)—just like veni, vidi, and vici!  And the verb forms that lack those sounds are not particularly productive when it comes to forming new verb forms from them.In order to preserve the orthographical integrity of the vetern- part of the verb (i.e. in order to avoid abusing that vetern- part too much, thereby ruining the joke), I suggest that it stays the same in the first two principal parts: veterno, veternere.  This is like what we see in verbs like bibo, bibere, bibi, and verro, verrere, verri.  I also suggest that the fourth principal part be veternitum, like bibitum, with that connecting vowel i, because this form makes it so that we do not have to get into strange phonetic conundrums that arise from whether we should be writing some very un-Latin nonsense like veternsum or veterntum. -- source link

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