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accusativus cum infinitivo (usually uncountable, plural accusativi cum infinitivis) (grammar) A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the acc…

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  1. accusativus cum infinitivo (usually uncountable, plural accusativi cum infinitivis) (grammar) A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements.