nosco
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin noscum, from Latin nōbiscum (“with us”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɔs.ko/, [ˈn̺ɔs̪ko]
- Rhymes: -ɔsko
- Stress: nòsco
- Hyphenation: no‧sco
Pronoun
nosco (poetic, archaic)
- with us
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXII, lines 106–108, page 340:
- Euripide v'è nosco e Antifonte, ¶ Simonide, Agatone e altri piùe ¶ Greci che già di lauro ornar la fronte.
- Euripides is with us, Antiphon, ¶ Simonides, Agatho, and many other ¶ Greeks who of old their brows with laurel decked.
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., “Libro IV [Book 4]”, in Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 85:
- […] chi primiero ¶ L'accordo vïolò, pasto vedrassi ¶ Di voraci avoltoi, mentre captive ¶ Le dilette lor mogli in un co' figli ¶ Noi nosco condurremo, Ilio distrutto.
- those who first broke the agreeement will be meal for hungry vultures, while we take with us their beloved wives and children, after destroying Troy.
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- (by extension) among us
- (by extension) towards or against us
- (by extension) in our time
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier gnōscō, from Proto-Italic *gnōskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnoːs.koː/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnos.ko/
Verb
nōscō (present infinitive nōscere, perfect active nōvī, supine nōtum); third conjugation
- I know, recognize, am acquainted with, i.e.; in possession of knowledge.
- Hic Natus Ubique Notus
- Born Here, Known Everywhere (motto of the Allende Institute in reference to Ignacio de Allende)
- Hic Natus Ubique Notus
Inflection
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Also in classical Latin are nōram for nōveram, nōrim for nōverim, nōmus for nōvimus, nōrunt for nōvērunt.
Derived terms
References
- nosco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nosco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nosco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse
- to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse
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