dormivistis

Dormivistis is a Latin verb form meaning "you slept" or "you have slept." It is the second person plural perfect active indicative of the verb dormio, dormivi, dormitum.

Morphology and formation: The form is built from the perfect stem dormiv- plus the second-person plural ending -istis, yielding dormivistis. The subject is usually the implied or explicit "you (plural)." In Latin, the perfect tense indicates a completed past action, and its English translation can be either a simple past (“you slept”) or a present perfect sense (“you have slept”) depending on context.

Usage: Dormivistis appears in classical Latin narratives and dialogues when referring to a past act of sleeping by multiple people. It is not a subjunctive or imperative form; it conveys a completed action in the past and is commonly used to advance chronology or describe events in a past scene.

Examples:

- Vos dormivistis ante lucem. = You all slept before dawn.

- Dormivistisne post cenam? = Did you sleep after dinner?

Notes: This form illustrates Latin’s synthetic verb system, where person, number, tense, mood, and voice are encoded in a single ending. Its counterpart for different persons and numbers would use the corresponding perfect endings (e.g., dormivi for “I slept,” dormivisti for “you slept [singular],” dormivimus for “we slept,” dormivistis for “you slept [plural],” dormiverunt for “they slept”). See also dormio and related perfect forms for a fuller understanding of this conjugation.