nascor
Latin
Alternative forms
- gnāscor (archaic form)
Etymology
From earlier gnāscor, from Proto-Italic *gnāskōr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnaːs.kor/, [ˈnäːs̠kɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnas.kor/, [ˈnäskor]
Verb
nāscor (present infinitive nāscī, perfect active nātus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- I am born, begotten.
- I arise, proceed.
- I grow, spring forth
- I am a number of years old.
- Vīgintī et quīnque annōs nātus sum.
- I am 25 years old.
- Terence, Heauton Timuromenos 62-63
- Annōs sexāgintā nātus es...
- You are 60 years old...
- Annōs sexāgintā nātus es...
- Vīgintī et quīnque annōs nātus sum.
Conjugation
- Note: Future participle is sometimes nāscitūrus.
| Conjugation of nāscor (third conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | nāscor | nāsceris, nāscere | nāscitur | nāscimur | nāsciminī | nāscuntur |
| imperfect | nāscēbar | nāscēbāris, nāscēbāre | nāscēbātur | nāscēbāmur | nāscēbāminī | nāscēbantur | |
| future | nāscar | nāscēris, nāscēre | nāscētur | nāscēmur | nāscēminī | nāscentur | |
| perfect | nātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | nātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | nātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | nāscar | nāscāris, nāscāre | nāscātur | nāscāmur | nāscāminī | nāscantur |
| imperfect | nāscerer | nāscerēris, nāscerēre | nāscerētur | nāscerēmur | nāscerēminī | nāscerentur | |
| perfect | nātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | nātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | nāscere | — | — | nāsciminī | — |
| future | — | nāscitor | nāscitor | — | — | nāscuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | nāscī | nātum esse | nātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | nāscēns | nātus | nātūrus | — | — | nāscendus, nāscundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| nāscendī | nāscendō | nāscendum | nāscendō | nātum | nātū | ||
Derived terms
- agnāscor
- dēnāscor
- enāscor
- innāscor
- internāscor
- renāscor
Related terms
- nāscēns
- nāscō
- nātālīcius
- nātālis
- nātiō
- nātīvus
- nātūra
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: nascu, nashtiri
- Romanian: naște, naștere
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: nasce
- Gallurese: nasci
- Italian: nascere
- Neapolitan: nasce
- Sassarese: nasci
- Sicilian: nàsciri
- Padanian:
- Friulian: nassi, naši
- Ladin: nascer
- Ligurian: nàsce
- Lombard: nas, nàsser
- Piedmontese: nasse
- Romansch: nascher, nescher
- Venetian: nàsar, nàser
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: *naistre, *nestre
- Franco-Provençal: nêtre, naitre
- Old French: naistre, nestre, nasquier
- Middle French: naistre
- French: naître, naquir (dialectal, Normandy, rare)
- Bourguignon: nâtre
- Norman: naître
- Walloon: nexhe
- Middle French: naistre
- Old Franco-Provençal: *naistre, *nestre
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: naixer, naxer, naixere
- Catalan: nàixer, néixer, néixere, naixtre
- Occitan: nàisser
- Gascon: nèisher, nàisher
- Ibero-Romance:
- >? Navarro-Aragonese: nacer, nascer
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: nacer, ñacer
- Leonese: nacere, ñacere
- Mirandese: nacer
- Old Portuguese: nacer, nascer
- Galician: nacer
- Portuguese: nascer
- Old Spanish: naçer
- Ladino: nacer
- Spanish: nacer
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: naschere, nassire, nasci, nasciri
- Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: naski, naskiĝi
- → Ido: naskar
- → Interlingua: nascer
- → Esperanto: naski, naskiĝi
See also
- genus
- gēns
- gignō
References
- “nascor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nascor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nascor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to originate in, arise from: ex aliqua re nasci, manare
- to originate in, arise from: ex aliqua re nasci, manare