Inflection

The circumflex accent ( ˆ ) is used to denote the length of the vowels.

It means that the grammatical relations between the words are shown by changes in their forms.

Most often the inflectional changes take place in the termination of the word:

• amor love, amôre for love;
• amo I love, amas you love, amâvi I loved, amavisti you loved.

• vinco I vanquish : vîci I vanquished;
• cano I sing : cecini I sang.