Dormiveratis

Dormiveratis is the second-person plural pluperfect active indicative form of the Latin verb dormire, meaning "to sleep." This tense form expresses an action that had been completed prior to another past action or time reference. It is derived from the perfect stem dormiv- and the pluperfect personal ending -eratis, following the regular pattern for fourth-conjugation verbs in the pluperfect tense.

In English, dormiveratis translates as "you had slept." It is primarily found in historical prose, narrative writing, and pedagogical examples of Latin verb conjugation, where it serves to place an earlier sleeping action in sequence with later events. The pluperfect family also includes forms such as dormiverat ("he had slept") and dormiverant ("they had slept"), which share the same stem and conjugation.

The form is regular for learners of Latin and illustrates the way the perfect stem is extended in the pluperfect for the second-person plural. Note that the pluperfect is distinct from the present and imperfect tenses and is used to express anterior past reference.

See also: dormire, Latin verb conjugation, pluperfect tense.