gnarus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • gnāruris
  • nārus

Etymology

Ultimately from a Proto-Italic *gnāros, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Attic Classical Greek root aorist of γιγνώσκω ("I get to know"), ἔγνων (egnōn, "I got to know") and its participle form γνούς, γνοῦσα, γνόν (gnous, gnousa, gnon, "Having got to know")

Pronunciation

Adjective

gnārus (feminine gnāra, neuter gnārum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Having knowledge of a thing; acquainted with a thing., skillful, practiced.
    Synonyms: doctus, instructus, callidus, perītus, sollers, cōnsultus
    Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, stultus, hospes, imperītus, iners, ignārus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative gnārus gnāra gnārum gnārī gnārae gnāra
genitive gnārī gnārae gnārī gnārōrum gnārārum gnārōrum
dative gnārō gnārae gnārō gnārīs
accusative gnārum gnāram gnārum gnārōs gnārās gnāra
ablative gnārō gnārā gnārō gnārīs
vocative gnāre gnāra gnārum gnārī gnārae gnāra

Derived terms

References

  • “gnarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gnarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gnarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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