Postrádáti

Postrádáti is a historical or literary infinitive form linked to the Czech verb postrádat, meaning to lack or to be missing. It is chiefly found in older Czech texts and in Latinized lexicographic works, where the infinitive forms of verbs were written with -ati rather than the modern -át or -at endings. In contemporary Czech, the standard infinitive is postrádat; therefore postrádáti is considered archaic or dialectal and appears mainly in philological editions and historical corpora.

Etymology and usage: The form represents an older orthographic variant of the same verb, attested in sources that render Slavic infinitives with Latin endings. It would function grammatically as an infinitive, and could appear in citations or scholarly apparatus describing older linguistic stages or in translations influenced by Latin grammar.

See also: postrádat, historical Czech orthography, Latinized dictionaries.

References: Czech linguistic grammars and historical dictionaries that discuss archaic or Latinized infinitive forms in older texts.