monuerunt

Monuerunt is the third person plural perfect active indicative form of the Latin verb monere, meaning to warn, advise, or caution. It is commonly translated as “they warned,” though in some contexts English may render it as “they have warned” to reflect present relevance.

Morphology and formation: Monuerunt is built from the perfect stem monu- plus the personal ending -erunt, following the regular pattern for the Latin perfect active indicative in the third person plural. The standard English gloss is the completed past action. In classical Latin orthography a variant spelling monuērunt with a macron on the e also appears, indicating vowel length; both spellings encode the same tense and person.

Usage: Monuerunt is used to report that a warning or admonition was given in the past. It governs a subject understood from context and may take a direct object or a clause specifying what was warned about. Example: Consules populum de periculo monuerunt. Translation: The consuls warned the people about the danger.

Related forms and principal parts: The verb monere belongs to the second conjugation and has the principal parts moneo, monere, monui, monitum. The perfect active form monuerunt shares its meaning with other perfect forms like monuit (he warned) and monuerunt (they warned), and it participates in the broader Latin tense system that marks completed actions in the past.

Notes: While monuerunt is a standard, fully regular form for 3rd person plural in the perfect, its exact English rendering depends on context. It is commonly found in classical Latin prose and poetry, and is one of the principal forms readers encounter when studying the tense and conjugation of the verb monere.