# nascor
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gnāskōr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”). 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnaːs.kor/, [ˈnäːs̠kɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnas.kor/, [ˈnäskor]

### Verb

nāscor (present infinitive nāscī, perfect active nātus sum or gnātus sum); third conjugation, deponent
* to be born, begotten
* to arise, proceed
* to grow, spring forth
* 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...

#### Derived terms

* agnāscor
* dēnāscor
* ēnāscor
* innāscor
* internāscor
* renāscor

#### Related terms

* cognātus
* nāscēns
* nāscō
* nātālīcius
* nātālis
* nātiō
* nātīvus
* nātūra
* praegnās

#### Descendants

(All via the non-deponent nāscere [nāscō].)
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: nascu
** Romanian: naște
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: nasce
** Gallurese: nasci
** Italian: nascere
** Neapolitan: nasce
** Sassarese: nasci
** Sicilian: nàsciri
* Padanian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: nàsce
*** Lombard: nas, nàsser
*** Piedmontese: nasse
** Friulian: nassi, naši
** Ladin: nascer
** Romansch: nascher, nescher
** Venetan: nàsar, nàser
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Old Franco-Provençal: *naistre, *nestre
*** Franco-Provençal: nêtre, naitre
** Old French: naistre, nestre, nasquier
*** Middle French: naistre
**** French: naître, naquir (dialectal, Normandy, rare)
*** Bourguignon: nâtre
*** Norman: naître
*** Walloon: nexhe
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: nàixer, néixer, néixere, naixtre
** Occitan: nàisser
    Gascon: nèisher, nàisher
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: naixer, naxer, naixere
** >? Navarro-Aragonese: nacer, nascer
** Old Leonese: [Term?]
*** Asturian: nacer, ñacer
*** Leonese: nacere, ñacere
*** Mirandese: nacer
** Old Galician-Portuguese: nacer, naçer, nascer
*** Galician: nacer, nascer
*** Portuguese: nascer
** Old Spanish: naçer
*** Ladino: nacer
*** Spanish: nacer
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: nàschere
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: naski, naskiĝi
*** → Ido: naskar
** → Interlingua: nascer

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nāscor, nāscī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 400-1

### Further reading

* “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, 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