The corpus record — Latin

nancĭo

nancĭo · v. a

to get, gain, obtain

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

1. nancĭo — Lewis & Short

nancĭo, īre, v. a., and nancĭor, īri,

I v. dep. a. [root nac-, v. nanciscor], to get, gain, obtain (post-class.): si nanciam populi desiderium, Gracch. ap. Prisc. p. 888 P.: in foedere Latino: PECVNIAM QVIS NANCITOR (i. e. nancitur) HABETO, Paul. ex Fest. p. 166 Müll.

2. nanciö — Walde–Hofmann

nanciö, -ire (Gracch., De verb. dep. 42£; naneiter [= -tur, Leumann-Stolz5 306]: nactus erit Fest. 167, renancitur : reprehenderit 277), nanciscor, nactus, jünger (Sommer Hb.? 600) nanctus sum, -i „erreiche, erlange, erwische, treffe an“ (seit XII tab,, rom. vereinzelt): aus *ma-n-ció *na-n-c-iscor (vgl. apió : apiscor; Nasalpraes. wie in frangö usw.; a aus idg. „ Osthoff MU. 6, 210. 214, Güntert Abl. 53, 79); Wz. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nanciö, p. 1047]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.