violavi

Violavi is the first-person singular perfect active indicative form of the Latin verb violare, meaning to violate, injure, or transgress. It is commonly used in Latin grammar to illustrate how the perfect tense is formed in the first conjugation, where the suffix -avi attaches to the verb stem.

Morphology and usage: The verb violare belongs to the first conjugation, with the stem viol-. In the perfect tense, Latin typically adds -avi to yield violavi, meaning “I violated” (or, in some contexts, “I have violated”). The full perfect paradigm for violare is violavi, violavisti, violavit, violavimus, violavistis, violaverunt. Related formations include the pluperfect violaveram (“I had violated”) and the future perfect violaverō/violaverō, depending on transmission. An illustrative sentence is Legem violavi, “I violated the law.”

Historical and linguistic context: Violavi appears in classical and later Latin texts as a standard example of a regular first-conjugation perfect. It is frequently cited in grammar manuals and linguistic discussions as a concrete instance of subject-verb agreement, tense, and aspect in inflected languages. In teaching materials, violavi helps learners recognize how past actions are encoded in Latin verb morphology and how related forms express variations in time and aspect.

See also: Latin language, Latin grammar, Latin verbs, conjugation patterns, perfect tense.