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
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hominem noveris: ubi mortuost, quiescat. te dum vivebas noveram. DIN. An me mortuom arbitrare? AST. Qui potis..." - P
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...istum huc portes, cogitas? SA. egon? imperatoris virtutem noveram et vim militum; sine sanguine hoc non posse fieri..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...corneolus fuit, aetatem bene ferebat, niger tanquam corvus. Noveram hominem olim oliorum, et adhuc salax erat. Non mehercules..." - M
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..." - G
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..."