pronoun
nōsmet
nōsmet
Classical[ˈnoːs.mɛt]Ecclesiastical[ˈnɔz.met]
Meaning
- ourselves
Sunt quae te volumus percontari, quae quasi per nebulam nosmet scimus atque audivimus.
There are some things about which we wish to inquire of you, which we ourselves know and have heard of as though through a cloud of mist.c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 1.4.462–463
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
we ourselves
nōsmet — in De Bello Gallico III
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | nōsmet |
| dative | — | nōbīsmet |
| accusative | — | nōsmet |
| ablative | — | nōbīsmet |
| vocative | — | nōsmet |
nosmet, v. nos
I. fin., and ego.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nōsmet see ego.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *-meti? Latin -met Latin nōsmet From nōs + -met.