edisti

Edisti is the second-person singular perfect indicative active form of the Latin verb edo, edere, meaning “to eat.” It translates as “you ate” and can also be understood as “you have eaten” in contexts that use the perfect aspect.

Grammatical notes indicate that edō belongs to a small, irregular class of verbs with nonstandard present forms; its present indicative forms include edis, edit, edimus, editis, edunt. The perfect active forms occupy the pattern edi (1st singular), edistī (2nd singular), edit (3rd singular), edīmus (1st plural), edistis (2nd plural), edērunt (3rd plural). In this paradigm, edistī specifically signals the second person singular in the perfect tense.

Etymology traces edo to a Proto-Italic root meaning “to eat,” with related Indo-European terms for eating. The form edisti is therefore part of the core Latin system for expressing completed past actions.

Usage in Latin texts is typical of standard past narration or description. Because Latin word order is flexible, edisti may appear with or without an explicit subject pronoun, as in Tu edisti panem (You ate bread) or Panem edisti.

See also: edo (to eat); edere; Latin perfect tense. While edisti is a standard verb form, it is most commonly encountered in classical Latin prose and poetry rather than in everyday modern usage.