expugnamini

Expugnamini is a Latin verb form, specifically the present passive indicative second person plural of the verb expugno, meaning to take by assault or to capture. In translations, expugnamini generally means “you all are captured” or “you all are being captured.” It appears in classical Latin texts describing sieges and battles, where the passive voice is used to report actions affecting the subject rather than the agent performing the action.

Morphologically, expugnamini is formed from the present stem expugn- and the standard present passive ending for the second person plural, -amini (often written with the characteristic Latin -minī ending). As a passive form, it denotes that the subject undergoes the action of capture, with the agent sometimes expressed by a phrase such as ab hostibus (“by the enemies”) or indicated by context.

Usage notes include its typical occurrence in narrative passages about warfare, fortifications, and city sieges. It can be contrasted with the active form expugno, “I capture,” or with other passive forms of expugno to express different persons, numbers, and tenses.

Examples in Latin would align with standard syntax: oppida expugnamini ab hostibus (The towns are being captured by the enemies). Expugnamini thus serves as a concrete instance of the Latin passive voice applied to verbs of force, illustrating how agency and action can be shifted from the subject to the surrounding context in historical prose.

See also: expugno; Latin verb conjugation; passive voice in Latin.