nascor

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From earlier gnāscor, from Proto-Italic *gnāskōr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːs.kor/, [ˈnäːs̠kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnas.kor/, [ˈnäskor]

Verb

nāscor (present infinitive nāscī, perfect active nātus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. I am born, begotten
2. I arise, proceed
3. I grow, spring forth
4. 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...

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

Related terms

• nāscēns
• nāscō / nāscere
• nātālīcius
• nātālis
• nātiō
• nātīvus
• nātūra

Descendants

• Esperanto: naski, naskiĝi
  • Ido: naskar
• Interlingua: nascer
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: nàsce
  • Piedmontese: nasse
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: nasce
  • Gallurese: nasci
  • Italian: nascere
  • Neapolitan: nasce
  • Sassarese: nasci
  • Sicilian: nàsciri
• Navarro-Aragonese: nacer, nascer
  • Aragonese: naxer
• Old Franco-Provençal: *naistre, *nestre
  • Franco-Provençal: nêtre
• Old French: naistre, nestre
  • Middle French: naistre
    • French: naître
  • Bourguignon: nâtre
  • Norman: naître
  • Walloon: nexhe
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: nacer, ñacer
  • Leonese: nacere, ñacere
  • Mirandese: nacer
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nacer, nascer
  • Galician: nacer
  • Portuguese: nascer
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: nàixer, néixer
  • Occitan: nàisser
• Old Spanish: naçer
  • Ladino: nacer
  • Spanish: nacer
• Proto-Romanian:
  • Aromanian: nascu, nashtiri
  • Romanian: naște, naștere
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: nassi, naši
  • Ladin: nascer
  • Romansch: nascher, nescher
• Sardinian: naschere, nassire, nasci, nasciri
• Venetian: nàsar, nàser

See also

• genus
• gens
• 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to originate in, arise from: ex aliqua re nasci, manare