separavit

Separavit is a Latin verb form meaning “he/she/it separated.” It is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of separare, a first-conjugation verb meaning to separate or detach. The form is built from the present stem separ- plus the perfect-active ending -avit. In the full conjugation of separare, the perfect active forms include separavi (I separated), separavisti (you separated), separavit (he/she/it separated), separavimus (we separated), separavistis (you all separated), and separaverunt (they separated).

Usage in Latin texts is as a completed past action. Separavit typically governs a direct object, often describing the act of separating one thing from another or disentangling groups, persons, or parts. For example, Caesar copias ab hostibus separavit would translate as “Caesar separated the troops from the enemies.” As with other perfect forms, separavit appears in narrative passages to report a past event or decision.

Related forms include separare (the infinitive), separo (the first-person present), and participles such as separatus, separata, separatum. The form separavit is distinct from the imperfect separabat (he was separating) and the pluperfect separaverat (he had separated). Understanding separavit helps with parsing Latin perfect tenses and recognizing the verb’s transitive use in depicting completed separations.