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From Proto-Italic *gnātos (“born; son”)[1], from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“produced, given birth”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth, beget”). When used as a verb form, it functions as the perfect active participle of the deponent verb nāscor (“to be born”). The form *gnātos must have previously also served as the perfect passive participle of the transitive verb gignō (“to bear; to beget; to engender”), whose attested perfect passive participle genitus is a relatively recent replacement[2] built by analogy to the stem of the perfect genuī.[3] Continued association with the latter verb, and with other related words where initial /g/ was regularly retained due to a following vowel, such as genus (“birth, origin, lineage, descent”), could be part of the reason a spelling with gn- was used for this word for some time after regular sound change had generally replaced initial *gn- in Latin with n-. Another influence on the spelling could have been the medial -gn- found in related prefixed words such prōgnātus, cognātus. Alternatively, Köhm 1905 suggests the relatively frequent occurrence of the noun after a possessive pronoun could have caused gn to be retained just as it was in word-internal position.[4]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | gnātus | gnātī |
Genitive | gnātī | gnātōrum |
Dative | gnātō | gnātīs |
Accusative | gnātum | gnātōs |
Ablative | gnātō | gnātīs |
Vocative | gnāte | gnātī |
gnātus (feminine gnāta, neuter gnātum); first/second-declension participle
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | gnātus | gnāta | gnātum | gnātī | gnātae | gnāta | |
Genitive | gnātī | gnātae | gnātī | gnātōrum | gnātārum | gnātōrum | |
Dative | gnātō | gnātō | gnātīs | ||||
Accusative | gnātum | gnātam | gnātum | gnātōs | gnātās | gnāta | |
Ablative | gnātō | gnātā | gnātō | gnātīs | |||
Vocative | gnāte | gnāta | gnātum | gnātī | gnātae | gnāta |
The spelling with gn- is used fairly consistently for the noun in the comedies of Plautus and Terence, while the verbal participle is often spelled with n- in these authors.[5] In later authors such as Virgil, the use of the spelling gn- is a definite archaism.[5]