nascor

From Proto-Italic *gnāskōr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).^[1] The word-initial *gn- was regularly simplified to n-; however, gnātus is attested in Old Latin as an alternative form of the perfect active participle nātus "born", and also (more frequently) as an early form of the noun nātus "son". As a noun, gnātus continued to be used by later authors as a (mostly poetic) archaism. Related to gignō (“to beget; to give birth to; to bring forth”). Cognate with Ancient Greek γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaːs.kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnas.kor]

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

1. to be born, begotten
2. to arise, proceed

   Sī quandō in puerīs ante alter dēns nāscitur quam prior excidat, is quī cadere dēbuit ēvellendus est.

   If ever in children a second tooth appears before the earlier one has fallen out, the one which ought to have fallen out must be uprooted.

3. to grow, spring forth
4. to be 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...

(All via the non-deponent nāscere [nāscō].)

• “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
    
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “nascor”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 429