nāscor, nāscī, nātus sum

Definitions for nāscī

Wheelock's Latin

Verb

1
to be born, spring forth, arise
English derivatives:
agnate cognate innate nascent natal nation nature naive

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Verb

1
To be born. (b) (of town, etc., more or less personified). (c) ~ens, being in the process of birth or in the early stages of growth.
2
(fig. and transf.) To come into being, be formed: (a) (of var. forms of growth). (b) (of inanim. things).
3
(a) (of heavenly bodies) To rise; (of day, etc.) to dawn. (b) (of rivers, springs, etc.). to rise; (of winds) to spring up.
4
(of abst. and non-material things) To come into existence, be instituted, arise. (b) ~ens, being in its early stages, beginning. (c) res nata, the situation, the way things are; e or pro re nata, in the circumstances; also, on the spur of the moment, at once.
5
(pf.) To have been born, exist, live; (also fut.); (b) nemo (homo) natus, no man alive; homo natus, a human being. (c) natum non putare, to regard as a nonentity. (d) postquam natus sum, all my life, my whole life long. (e) post homines natos (and sim.), since the human race began.

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Sentences with nāscī

Latin to English

Eōdem diē fīlius eius nātus est et mortuus est.Compare His son was born and died on the same day.

Linque tuas sedes alienaque litora quaere, o iuvenis: maior rerum tibi nascitur ordo.Compare Leave thine home, O youth, and seek out alien shores: a larger range of life is ordained for thee.

Ad hoc sacramentum adacti sumus, ferre mortalia nec perturbari iis, quae vitare non est nostrae potestatis. In regno nati sumus; deo parere libertas est. [De vita beata, XV, 7]Compare This is the sacred obligation by which we are bound - to submit to the human lot and not to be disquieted by those things which we have the power to avoid. We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

Aiunt fertiles in Oceano iacere terras ultraque Oceanum rursus alia litora, alium nasci orbem... Facile ista finguntur, quia Oceanus navigari non potest. [Suasoriae,I.1.1]Compare They say that there are fertile lands somewhere in the Ocean, and that beyond the Ocean lie other shores, another world begins.... It is easy to imagine such things, for the Ocean is not navigable.

Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.Compare Give way, Roman writers, give way, Greeks! Something greater than the Ilias is being born. [On Vergil's Aeneid]

Quare iste, ubi tu nascor, plus amo posthac locus.Compare Wherefore I shall henceforth love still more this place, where you were born.

Is, qui nascor, conditio vivo.Compare Let us live on those terms on which we were born.

Conjugation table for nāscī

Cactus2000

ACTIVE
Indicative present	Indicative imperfect
nāscor nāsceris nāscitur nāscimur nāsciminī nāscuntur	nāscēbar nāscēbāris nāscēbātur nāscēbāmur nāscēbāminī nāscēbantur
Indicative perfect	Indicative pluperfect
nātus sum nātus es nātus est nātī sumus nātī estis nātī sunt	nātus eram nātus erās nātus erat nātī erāmus nātī erātis nātī erant
Indicative future	Indicative future perfect
nāscar nāscēris nāscētur nāscēmur nāscēminī nāscentur	nātus erō nātus eris nātus erit nātī erimus nātī eritis nātī erunt
Subjunctive present	Subjunctive imperfect
nāscar nāscāris nāscātur nāscāmur nāscāminī nāscantur	nāscerer nāscerēris nāscerētur nāscerēmur nāscerēminī nāscerentur
Subjunctive perfect	Subjunctive pluperfect
nātus sim nātus sīs nātus sit nātī sīmus nātī sītis nātī sint	nātus essem nātus essēs nātus esset nātī essēmus nātī essētis nātī essent
Infinitive present nāscī Infinitive perfect nātum esse Infinitive future nātūrum esse	Imperative present nāscere nāsciminī Imperative future nāscito / nāscitor nāscito / nāscitor - nāscunto / nāscuntor

	PARTICIPLE
	Participle present active
	nāscēns	nāscentēs
	nāscēns	nāscentēs
	nāscēns	nāscentēs
	nāscēns	nāscentēs
	nāscēns	nāscentēs
	Participle future active
	nātūrus	nātūrī
	nātūrus	nātūrī
	nātūrus	nātūrī
	nātūrus	nātūrī
	nātūrus	nātūrī
	Participle perfect passive
	nātus	nātī
	nātus	nātī
	nātus	nātī
	nātus	nātī
	nātus	nātī
	Gerundive
	nāscendus	nāscendī
	nāscendus	nāscendī
	nāscendus	nāscendī
	nāscendus	nāscendī
	nāscendus	nāscendī
	Gerund	Supine
	nāscī	nātum
	nāscī	nātū
	nāscī
	nāscī
	nāscī

	PARTICIPLE
	Participle present active
Nom.	nāscēns	nāscentēs
Gen.	nāscentis	nāscentium
Dat.	nāscentī	nāscentibus
Acc.	nāscentem	nāscentēs
Abl.	nāscente	nāscentibus
	Participle future active
Nom.	nātūrus	nātūrī
Gen.	nātūrī	nātūrōrum
Dat.	nātūrō	nātūrīs
Acc.	nātūrum	nātūrōs
Abl.	nātūrō	nātūrīs
	Participle perfect passive
Nom.	nātus	nātī
Gen.	nātī	nātōrum
Dat.	nātō	nātīs
Acc.	nātum	nātōs
Abl.	nātō	nātīs
	Gerundive
Nom.	nāscendus	nāscendī
Gen.	nāscendī	nāscendōrum
Dat.	nāscendō	nāscendīs
Acc.	nāscendum	nāscendōs
Abl.	nāscendō	nāscendīs
	Gerund	Supine
Nom.	nāscī	nātum
Gen.	nāscendī	nātū
Dat.	nāscendō
Acc.	nāscendum
Abl.	nāscendō

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 239.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1156.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.

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Allo Contributors. "nāscor, nāscī, nātus sum (v.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 10, 2023. Accessed December 25, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/nascor-nasci-natus-sum.