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Latin
Alternative forms
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
- 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.
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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.