gnarus

Latin

Alternative forms

• gnāruris
• nārus

Etymology

Ultimately from a Proto-Italic *gnāros, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Attic Classical Greek root aorist of γιγνώσκω ("I get to know"), ἔγνων (egnōn, "I got to know") and its participle form γνούς, γνοῦσα, γνόν (gnous, gnousa, gnon, "Having got to know")

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡnaː.rus/, [ˈŋnäːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɲa.rus/, [ˈɲäːrus]

Adjective

gnārus (feminine gnāra, neuter gnārum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Having knowledge of a thing; acquainted with a thing., skillful, practiced.

   Synonyms: doctus, instructus, callidus, perītus, sollers, cōnsultus

   Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, stultus, hospes, imperītus, iners, ignārus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	gnārus	gnāra	gnārum		gnārī	gnārae	gnāra
Genitive	gnārī	gnārae	gnārī		gnārōrum	gnārārum	gnārōrum
Dative	gnārō		gnārō		gnārīs
Accusative	gnārum	gnāram	gnārum		gnārōs	gnārās	gnāra
Ablative	gnārō	gnārā	gnārō		gnārīs
Vocative	gnāre	gnāra	gnārum		gnārī	gnārae	gnāra

Derived terms

• gnāritās
• ignārus

Related terms

• narrō
• nōscō

References

• “gnarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gnarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gnarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.