It’s at the back of my mind that there was an irregular verb “to strike” which went:
ferio - ferire - percussi - ictum
Not to be confused with:
fero - ferre - tuli - latus
which IIRC is “to carry.”
Can someone correct the above, and let me know how much I have partly/totally misremembered it?
You have listed four principal parts from three different verbs, all meaning “strike.” The principal parts of ferio are
**ferio, ferire, ferivi, feritus**
Percussi is the third principal part of percutio:
**percutio, percutere, percussi, percussus**
And ictum (ictus) is the fourth principal part of icio:
**icio, icere, ici, ictus**
See Professor William Harris’s Latin Dictionary and Form Finder.
That makes sense! Thanks. I can’t think what our Latin master was trying to give an example of when he said that thing, but maybe just the prevalance of synonyms in Latin or something.