# noster
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nosteros.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnos.ter/, [ˈnɔs̠t̪ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnos.ter/, [ˈnɔst̪er]

### Determiner

noster (feminine nostra, neuter nostrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er)
* (possessive) our, ours
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.213–214:“[...] cōnūbia nostra / reppulit, ac dominum Aenēān in rēgna recēpit.”“[The woman …] has rejected our marriage-offer, and accepted Aeneas as lord in her realm.” (King Iarbas, whom Queen Dido has rejected, refers to himself using the “royal we.”)

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.

#### Derived terms

* DN
* nostrās
* nostrātim

#### Related terms

* vester/voster

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: nostru, noastrã, noshtri, noastri
* Catalan: nostre, nostres
* Dalmatian: nuester, nuestra
* Franco-Provençal: noutro, noutra, noutros, noutres
* Friulian: nestri, nestre, nestris
* Istriot: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre
* Italian: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre
* Occitan: nòstre, nòstra, nòstres, nòstras
* Old French: nostre, noz
** French: notre, nôtre, nos
* Old Leonese: nostro, nuestro, nostra, nuestra, nostros, nuestros, nostras, nuestras
** Asturian: nuestru, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
* Old Galician-Portuguese: nostro
* Old Spanish: nuestro, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
** Spanish: nuestro, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
** Ladino: muestro, muestra, muestros, muestras
* Piedmontese: nòstr, nòst
* Romanian: nostru, noastră, noștri, noastre
* Sardinian: nostru, nostra
* Sassarese: nosthru, nosthra, nosthri
* Sicilian: nostru, nostra, nostri
* Venetan: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre
Through Vulgar Latin *nossus:
* Old Leonese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
** Asturian: nuesu, nuesa, nuesos, nuesa
** Leonese: nuésu, nuésa, nuésus, nuésas
** Mirandese: nuosso, nuossa, nuossos, nuossas
* Old Galician-Portuguese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
** Eonavian: noso, nosa, nosos, nosas
** Galician: noso, nosa, nosos, nosas
** Portuguese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
* Romansch: noss, nossa, nossas

### References

* “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* noster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43) to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)