gnarus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡnaː.rus/, [ˈŋnäːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɲa.rus/, [ˈɲäːrus]
Adjective edit
gnārus (feminine gnāra, neuter gnārum); first/second-declension adjective
- Having knowledge of a thing; acquainted with a thing., skillful, practiced.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 |
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References edit
- “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.