nanciscor — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 4 · 15.22/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
De Bello Civili 33 · 10.22/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
De Bello Africo 9 · 6.92/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Hecyra 4 · 4.44/10k

Densest 12 of 137 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nanciscor — Lewis & Short

nanciscor, nactus and nanctus (cf. Mai. ad

Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 16; Drak. ad Liv. 24, 31; 25, 30;

I inf. nanciscier, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 59), 3, v. dep. a. [Sanscr. naç, obtain; Gr. e)nek- in h)/negka, etc.; cf.: a)na/gkh, necesse] (in pass. signif, nactus, v. infra fin.), to get, obtain, receive a thing (esp. by accident or without one's co-operation), to meet with, stumble on, light on, find a thing (syn.: offendo, reperio, deprehendo): unde anulum istum nactus? Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 27: quoniam nacti te, inquit, sumus aliquando otiosum, Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 14: nactus sum etiam, qui Xenophontis similem esse se cuperet, id. Or. 9, 32: cum plus otii nactus ero, id. Fam. 3, 7, 1; id. N D. 3, 36, 87: immanes beluas nanciscimur venando, id. ib. 2, 64, 161; id. Fam. 13, 7, 4: eum Philolai commentarios esse nanctum, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16 Mai.: Cato sic abiit a vitā, ut causam moriendi nactum se esse gauderet, id. Tusc. 1, 30, 74: se in silvas abdiderunt, locum nacti, egregie et naturā et opere munitum, Caes. B. G. 5, 9; hence, to possess by birth, to have by nature: maleficam (naturam) nactus est in corpore fingendo, Nep Ages. 8; of evil as well as good fortune: quod sim nactus mali, Ter. And. 5, 6, 3: ex nuptiis tuis si nihil nanciscor mali, id. Phorm. 3, 3, 10.—Esp., to catch, contract by infection or contagion: nactus est morbum, Nep. Att. 21, 2: febrim, to contract or catch a fever, Suet. Tit. 10: milvo est quoddam bellum quasi naturale cum corvo, ergo alter alterius ubicumque nactus est ova, frangit, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125. —

II Transf., to light upon, meet with, reach, find; of inanim. things or living beings: meum quod rete et hami nacti sunt, meum potissimum est, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 46: vitis claviculis suis quicquid est nacta, complectitur, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem, Caes. B. G. 4, 23: nactusque silentia ruris Exululat, having reached the quiet country, Ov. M. 1, 232: nactus, as passive, App. M. 7, 15; Hyg. Fab. 1 and 8.

In the wild

Nacti Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.31.1
nactus Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.30.5
nactae Horace, Carmina 3.11
nancta Ovid, Fasti 3.565
nactus Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.3.1
nactus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.17.2

6 of 379 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nanciscor (scan pp. 452-453; entry #7265). Root candidates: *nek’-, *nok-.