Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 165

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[*] 165. Every form of the finite verb is made up of two parts:

The STEM (see § 24). This is either the root or a modification or development of it.
The ENDING, consisting of—

the Signs of Mood and Tense (see §§ 168, 169).
the Personal Ending (see § 163).

Thus in the verb vocā-bā-s, you were calling, the root is VOC, modified into the verb-stem vocā-, which by the addition of the ending -bās becomes the imperfect tense vocābās; and this ending consists of the tense-sign bā- and the personal ending (-s) of the second person singular.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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