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Meaning of gnatus | Babel Free

Verb feminine CEFR B1
[ˈnaː.tʊs]

Definitions

  1. born
    Old-Latin, declension-1, declension-2, participle
  2. descended from, born to
    Old-Latin, ablative, declension-1, declension-2, participle
  3. aged (having the age of); -old
    Old-Latin, declension-1, declension-2, participle

Examples

“Nam equidem, postquam gnatus sum, numquam aegrotavi unum diem, neque ego insanio neque pugnas neque ego litis coepio.”

1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley Why, in fact, since I was born, I have never for a single day been ill. I'm neither mad, nor do I commence strifes or quarrels.

“Venit hoc mihi, Megadore, in mentem, ted esse hominem divitem, factiosum, me autem esse hominem pauperum pauperrimum; nunc si filiam locassim meam tibi, in mentem venit te bovem esse et me esse asellum: ubi tecum coniunctus siem, ubi onus nequeam ferre pariter, iaceam ego asinus in luto,”

1916 translation by Paul Nixon Now here's the way it strikes me, Megadorus,—you're a rich man, a man of position: but as for me, I'm poor, awfully poor, dreadfully poor. Now if I was to marry off my daughter to you, it strikes me you'd be the ox and I'd be the donkey. When I was hitched up with you and couldn't pull my share of the load, down I'd drop, I, the donkey, in the mud; and you, the ox, wouldn't pay any more attention to me than if I'd never been born at all.

“Ego patri meo esse fateor summas divitias domi”

1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley I confess that my father has very great wealth at home, and that I am born of a very noble family

“Annos gnatus sexaginta qui erit, si quem scibimus si maritum sive hercle adeo caelibem scortarier cum eo nos hac lege agemus: […]”

If we find out that any sixty-year-old, married or unmarried, whores around, we shall deal with him according to the following law

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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