nanctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of nancīscor

Participle

nānctus (feminine nāncta, neuter nānctum); first/second-declension participle

alternative form of nactus

  1. encountered, reached, found, caught
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.5:
      Hodiernum hoc est quod apud Epicūrum nānctus sum [...].
      This is what I am [reflecting upon from] today’s [readings], having found it among [the writings of] Epicurus [...].

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative nānctus nāncta nānctum nānctī nānctae nāncta
genitive nānctī nānctae nānctī nānctōrum nānctārum nānctōrum
dative nānctō nānctae nānctō nānctīs
accusative nānctum nānctam nānctum nānctōs nānctās nāncta
ablative nānctō nānctā nānctō nānctīs
vocative nāncte nāncta nānctum nānctī nānctae nāncta

References

  • “nanctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "nanctus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • nanctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
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