Today, I learned more Latin: dīlēxī - first-person singular, perfect tense, active indicative of the verb, dīligō, to love - I have loved.
In the text below, the accent mark is on the penultimate syllable. The lowercase æ is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. Combined with dilexi, it means, “which I have loved.” Latin is a little more succinct. It doesn’t need all the I’s and will’s and have’s. I might say it to people when the time is right.
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