Probably from an old or proto-Romanian formaeți (with a similar form attested in Aromanian), fromLatinhabētis. The form with -v- (aveți) in the present form of the verb's main conjugation (as opposed to its use in this form as an auxiliary verb) may have been remade by analogy withavut;[1]ați may also be seen as a reduced, clitic form ofaveți[2] See alsoam, which has a parallel development.
(voi) ați (modal auxiliary,second-personplural form ofavea,used withpast participles to formperfect compus tenses)
Presumably from aVulgar Latin*eatis, fromLatinhabēbātis.
(voi) ați (modal auxiliary,second-personplural form ofavea,used withinfinitives to formconditional tenses)