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gnarus

knowing, experienced

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Where it lives

Antoninus Geta 2 · 16.26/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Annales 16 · 1.8/10k
Historiae 9 · 1.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 2 · 1.73/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. gnarus — de Vaan

gnarus 'knowing, experienced' [adj, o/a] (P1.+; narus Varro) Derivatives: ignarus 'having no knowledge, ignorant' (PL+), prdgnariter 'with full knowledge' (PL, Enn.); gnaruris [adj.] 'having knowledge' (PL); gnarigare 'to publish' (Andr. apud PauL ex F.)\ narrare 'to relate, tell' (Andr.+), narratio 'story' (Ter.+), denaryare 'to relate in full' (P1.+), enarrare 'to recount' (PL+), praenarrare 'to explain in … — [de Vaan, s.v. gnarus, p. 281]

2. gnārus — Lewis & Short

gnārus, a, um (also ante- and postclass. form gnārŭris, e, gnw/rimos, Gloss. Philox.—Another form is † nārus, like navus, notus, acc. to adj.Sanscr. gna-, ganāmi, know; Gr. gignw/skw; Lat. gnosco, nosco, narrare, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 17; id. Poen. prol. 47; Aus. Ep. 22, 19; Arn. 3, 113; and cf.: gnaruris Cic. Or. 47, 158),

I knowing or acquainted with a thing; skilful, practised, expert (syn. doctus, eruditus, peritus).

I Lit. (rare but class.); constr. with gen., or with a rel. or object-clause; ante- and post-class. with acc.

(a) With gen.: nec loci gnara sum, Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 28: loci, Sall. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 700 P.; rei publicae, Cic. Brut. 64, 228: armorum et militiae, Col. 1 praef. § 4: artis, Just. 11, 7: temporis, Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 30; cf. Tac. Agr. 6: si modo vinitor gnarus est iis utendi, Col. 4, 25, 1: nostri tergi, Plaut. As. 3, 2, 6: venandi, Vulg. Gen. 25, 27.—

(b) With rel.clause: Periclem uberem et fecundum fuisse, gnarumque, quibus orationis modis, etc., Cic. Or. 4, 15: nemine gnaro aut opinante, quidnam coepturus esset, Suet. Calig. 46.—

(g) With object-clause: Hasdrubal satis gnarus, Hannibalem transitus quosdam pretio mercatum, Liv. 23, 29, 5; cf. id. 33, 5, 4; Tac. H. 2, 29; 65; 5, 19 al.: concha cum manum videt, comprimit sese operitque opes suas, gnara propter illas se peti, Plin. 9, 35, 55, § 110.—

(d) With acc.: simul gnarures vos volo esse hanc rem mecum, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 17: ut mecum sitis gnarures, id. Poen. prol. 47.—

II Transf., pass., known (for the usual notus; post-Aug.; very rare, except in Tac.): in paludem gnaram vincentibus, Tac. A. 1, 63: idque nulli magis gnarum quam Neroni, id. ib. 15, 61; cf.: gnarum id Caesari, id. ib. 1, 5 (opp. incognita), App. Mag. p. 281, 9.—Absol.: conspicui eoque gnari, Tac. A. 6, 35.—Comp. not in use.—Sup., Sol. 51 fin.

In the wild

gnaros Silius Italicus, Punica 4.530
gnarus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.6
gnara Tacitus, Annales 11.p30
gnarus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.33.11.2
gnara Tacitus, Annales 12.p46
gnara Statius, Thebais 2.92

6 of 76 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. gnarus (scan pp. 281-282; entry #705). Root candidates: *gnaro-, *gnarqje-, *gndro-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gnarus (scan p. 302; entry #4743).

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