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nāscī is a Latin Verb that primarily means to be born.
Verb
to be born, spring forth, arise
English derivatives:
agnate cognate innate nascent natal nation nature naive
Verb
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.
(fig. and transf.) To come into being, be formed: (a) (of var. forms of growth). (b) (of inanim. things).
(a) (of heavenly bodies) To rise; (of day, etc.) to dawn. (b) (of rivers, springs, etc.). to rise; (of winds) to spring up.
(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.
(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.
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.
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 |
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