noveram
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nosco, noscere, novi, notus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
get to know; learn, find out; become cognizant of/acquainted/familiar with;; examine, study, inspect; try (case); recognize, accept as valid/true; recall;; know, know of; know how, be able (to); experience; (PERF form, PRES force);; know; be familiar/acquainted/conversant with/aware of; accept, recognize;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hominem noveris: ubi mortuost, quiescat. te dum vivebas noveram. DIN. An me mortuom arbitrare? AST. Qui potis..."Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...istum huc portes, cogitas? SA. egon? imperatoris virtutem noveram et vim militum; sine sanguine hoc non posse fieri..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...corneolus fuit, aetatem bene ferebat, niger tanquam corvus. Noveram hominem olim oliorum, et adhuc salax erat. Non mehercules..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...longius circumduxerunt, iurant ita Ciceronem locuturum fuisse. XVIII. Noveram quosdam qui se pulchre expressisse genus illud caelestis huius..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Prisci nostri contubernium iucundum tibi futurum sciebam. Noveram simplicitatem eius, noveram comitatem; eundem esse — quod minus noram — gratissimum..."