nescius
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From nesciō (“not to know”), equivalent to ne- + scius, the latter more likely a backformation itself. Compare inscius.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnes.ki.us/, [ˈnɛs̠kiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈneʃ.ʃi.us/, [ˈnɛʃːius]
Adjective[edit]
nescius (feminine nescia, neuter nescium); first/second-declension adjective
- not knowing, unknowing, in ignorance, ignorant, unaware, untaught
- Synonyms: ignārus, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers
- Antonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius, sciēns
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.71-72:
- [...] pāstor agēns tēlīs, līquitque volātile ferrum / nescius; [...].
- [...] and the shepherd, driving in [such] darts, has departed from his flying weapon, unaware; [...].
(In the simile comparing Dido falling in love to a deer struck by an arrow, at first Aeneas — i.e., the archer — does not know what has happened.)
- [...] and the shepherd, driving in [such] darts, has departed from his flying weapon, unaware; [...].
- [...] pāstor agēns tēlīs, līquitque volātile ferrum / nescius; [...].
- (passive voice) unknown
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nescius | nescia | nescium | nesciī | nesciae | nescia | |
| Genitive | nesciī | nesciae | nesciī | nesciōrum | nesciārum | nesciōrum | |
| Dative | nesciō | nesciō | nesciīs | ||||
| Accusative | nescium | nesciam | nescium | nesciōs | nesciās | nescia | |
| Ablative | nesciō | nesciā | nesciō | nesciīs | |||
| Vocative | nescie | nescia | nescium | nesciī | nesciae | nescia | |
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References[edit]
- “nescius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nescius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nescius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- I know very well: non sum ignarus, nescius (not non sum inscius)
- I know very well: non sum ignarus, nescius (not non sum inscius)