nosco

From Vulgar Latin nōscum, from Latin nōbiscum (“with us”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.sko/
• Rhymes: -ɔsko
• Syllabification: nò‧sco

nosco (poetic, archaic)

1. with us
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXII, lines 106–108, page 340:

     Euripide v'è nosco e Antifonte, ¶ Simonide, Agatone e altri piùe ¶ Greci che già di lauro ornar la fronte.

     Euripides is with us, Antiphon, ¶ Simonides, Agatho, and many other ¶ Greeks who of old their brows with laurel decked.

   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., “Libro IV [Book 4]”, in Iliade [Iliad]‎, Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 85:

     […] chi primiero ¶ L'accordo vïolò, pasto vedrassi ¶ Di voraci avoltoi, mentre captive ¶ Le dilette lor mogli in un co' figli ¶ Noi nosco condurremo, Ilio distrutto.

     those who first broke the agreeement will be meal for hungry vultures, while we take with us their beloved wives and children, after destroying Troy.

2. (by extension) among us
3. (by extension) towards or against us
4. (by extension) in our time

• meco
• seco
• teco
• vosco

• nosco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• sonco

• gnōscō

From earlier gnōscō, from Proto-Italic *gnōskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːs.koː/, [ˈnoːs̠koː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnos.ko/, [ˈnɔsko]

nōscō (present infinitive nōscere, perfect active nōvī, supine nōtum); third conjugation

1. to become acquainted with something, learn about it

   Synonyms: intellegō, cognosco, cerno, tongeo, prehendō

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.52:

     Cum igitur "nosce te" dicit, hoc dicit: "nosce animum tuum". Nam corpus quidem quasi vas est aut aliquod animi receptaculum.

     Therefore when he [the Pythian Apollo] says, "Know thyself", this is what it means: "Know your mind". The body is of course like a vase, or some other container for the mind.

2. (in perfect tenses and past participle) I know, recognize, am acquainted with, i.e.; in possession of knowledge.

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

   • 2 CE, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.1-2:

     Sī quis in hōc artem populō nōn nōvit amandī, / hoc legat et lēctō carmine doctus amet.

     If anyone does not know the art of loving, may they read this, and having both read the poem and been taught, love.

   • Hīc Nātus Ubīque Nōtus

     Born Here, Known Everywhere (motto of the Allende Institute in reference to Ignacio de Allende)

3. (rare) to recognize someone, be familiar with

   Synonyms: recognōscō, cognōscō, agnōscō

4. (euphemistic) to have had sex with, have ever slept with

   Synonym: cognōscō

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, 72 :

     Dīcēbās quondam sōlum tē nōsse Catullum, / Lesbia, nec prae mē velle tenēre Iovem.

     You used to say, some time ago, that you only ever slept with [me] Catullus, Lesbia, and that you didn't want to hold [even] Jupiter more than me.

5. to accept a reason or excuse

   Synonyms: accipiō, cōnservō

6. (Late Latin, Christian Latin) to acknowledge God, submit to
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Acta Apostolorum 19:15:

     Respondens autem spiritus nequam dixit eis, Iesum novi et Paulum scio, vos autem qui estis?

     A wicked spirit replied to them, "I acknowledge Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are all of you?

¹The verb "nōscō" and its compounds frequently drop the syllables "vi" and "ve" from their perfect, pluperfect and future perfect conjugations.

• “nosco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nosco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nosco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse