rarum 147: an imperative of distant future, as opposed to an imperative of near future;
formed from near-future imperative verb forms plus the ablative singular of
the pronoun *to-, -to:d ‘from there, afterwards’
illustration:
tu epistulam hanc a me accipe atque illi dato: (Plautus, Pseudolus)
‘take you this letter from me [now] and give it to him [later]!’
- Where found
- Old Indian (Sanskrit), Ancient Greek, and Latin (a family possession, i.e., jointly innovated in (a subset of) Indo-European, and lost in other members of the family?)
- Domain
- morphology: inflection
- Subdomain
- mood, tense
- Keywords
- imperative, future
- Type
- rarum
- Universals violated
- Source
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1953). The future imperative of Indo-European. Revue
Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 31: 937-954.
I would be surprised if some such distinction weren’t more common.