allarmavi

Allarmavi is the Latin perfect active indicative form of the verb allarmare, meaning to alarm or to cause fear. It represents the first-person singular in the perfect tense and is used in Latin texts to indicate a completed action in which the subject alarmed someone or something.

Grammar and principal parts: Allarmare belongs to the first conjugation. The principal parts are allarmō, allarmāre, allarmāvī, allarmātum. The form allarmāvī is the perfect active, while the corresponding passive perfect is allarmātus sum. The imperfect would be allarmābam or allarmābām, depending on spelling conventions, and the future is allarmābō.

Usage and examples: Allarmavi is typically found with a direct object in the accusative, such as te or eos, indicating whom was alarmed. For example, allarmavi te means “I alarmed you.” In broader narrative, a speaker might report that he/she caused fear in others by some action, phraseable as allarmavi eos or allarmavi eis in suitable contexts.

Etymology and reception: The verb allarmare is a late Latin or Romance loanword meaning to alarm. Its precise origin is uncertain, but it is treated in Latin dictionaries as a verb of the first conjugation, borrowed into Latin from a Romance predecessor. Allarmavi is the standard Latin form used to render the English sense “I alarmed” within Latin prose and poetry.

See also: Latin grammar, allarmare, Latin verbs of the first conjugation, Latin perfect tense.