1. For _vuelc_ (_tinc_, _vinc_), see § 181, (1); for _volguí_ (_venguí_), § 177, (1).
(4) _sapuī_ ＞ saup, saubí _sapuĭmus_ ✱_sapwĭ́mu’_ ＞ saubẹm _sapuĭstī_ ＞ saubíst _sapuĭstis_ ＞ saubẹtz saubẹs _sapuit_ ＞ saup _sapuĕrunt_ ＞ sáubron sáubro, sáupron
1. For _saubí_, see § 177, (1). For _sáupron_ (_sáupra_, _saupés_, _saupút_), see § 65, P, 3; cf. § 148, (2).
185. The old conditional came from the Latin pluperfect indicative, which had been supplanted in its pluperfect sense by a compound form, and was gradually restricted in its use to the functions of a preterit, a perfect conditional, and a simple conditional: see § 141, (2). In Provençal it had only the conditional meaning; and as the new conditional rendered it superfluous, it fell into disuse (with the exception of ágra and fọra) in the 13th and 14th centuries: see § 142, (2).
186. In the fourth conjugation the old conditional comes from the contracted form of the pluperfect (_audīram_ ＜ _audīvĕram_). Weak verbs of the third conjugation constructed a similar form (✱_vendęram_). First conjugation verbs started with the contracted pluperfect (_amāram_ ＜ _amāvĕram_), but in Provençal substituted ę for á, as in the preterit: § 175, (4). The Provençal types of the old conditional of weak verbs are, therefore, represented by: amęra, vendęra, auzíra. The inflection is as follows:--
amęra amerám amęras amerátz amęra amęran auzíra auzirám auzíras auzirátz auzíra auzíran
187. Strong verbs of the _-ī_ and the _-uī_ classes regularly took their old conditional directly from the Latin pluperfect: _fēcĕram_ ＞ fẹira, _fŭĕram_ ＞ fọra, _vīdĕram_ ＞ vira; _habŭĕram_ ✱_áβwĕram_ (§ 16, 2) ＞ ágra, _pŏtŭĕram_ ＞ pǫgra, _vŏlŭĕram_ ＞ vǫlgra, _sapŭĕram_ ＞ sáubra sáupra (§ 65, P, 3). Of course the Latin pluperfect, and therefore the Provençal conditional, followed the shift of the perfect if it changed from one class to another: _vēnī_ ＞ ✱_vēnuī_, hence ✱_vēnŭĕram_ ＞ vẹngra. The inflection is as follows:--
fọra forám ágra agrám fọras forátz forás ágras agrátz agrás fọra fọran ágra ágran
1. _Faire_ has _féra_ (cf. _feron_) beside _féira_.
2. For _sáupra_, cf. § 148, (2), and § 184, (4), 1, and § 192.
3. _Devér_ has beside _dégra_ a form _déura_, evidently influenced by the new conditional, _deuría_.