noster

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nosteros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnos.ter/, [ˈnɔs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnos.ter/, [ˈnɔst̪er]

Determiner

noster (feminine nostra, neuter nostrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (possessive) our, ours
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.213–214:

     “[...] cōnūbia nostra / reppulit, ac dominum Aenēān in rēgna recēpit.”

     “[The woman …] has rejected our marriage-offer, and accepted Aeneas as lord in her realm.”
     (King Iarbas, whom Queen Dido has rejected, refers to himself using the “royal we.”)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	noster	nostra	nostrum		nostrī	nostrae	nostra
Genitive	nostrī	nostrae	nostrī		nostrōrum	nostrārum	nostrōrum
Dative	nostrō		nostrō		nostrīs
Accusative	nostrum	nostram	nostrum		nostrōs	nostrās	nostra
Ablative	nostrō	nostrā	nostrō		nostrīs
Vocative	noster	nostra	nostrum		nostrī	nostrae	nostra
Locative	nostrī	nostrae	nostrī		nostrīs

Derived terms

• DN
• nostrās
• nostrātim

 

Related terms

• vester/voster

Descendants

• Aromanian: nostru, noastrã, noshtri, noastri
• Catalan: nostre, nostres
• Dalmatian: nuester, nuestra
• Franco-Provençal: noutro, noutra, noutros, noutres
• Friulian: nestri, nestre, nestris
• Istriot: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre
• Italian: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre
• Occitan: nòstre, nòstra, nòstres, nòstras
• Old French: nostre, noz
  • French: notre, nôtre, nos
• Old Leonese: nostro, nuestro, nostra, nuestra, nostros, nuestros, nostras, nuestras
  • Asturian: nuestru, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nostro
• Old Spanish: nuestro, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
  • Spanish: nuestro, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
  • Ladino: muestro, muestra, muestros, muestras
• Piedmontese: nòstr, nòst
• Romanian: nostru, noastră, noștri, noastre
• Sardinian: nostru, nostra
• Sassarese: nosthru, nosthra, nosthri
• Sicilian: nostru, nostra, nostri
• Venetan: nostro, nostra, nostri, nostre

Through Vulgar Latin *nossus:

• Old Leonese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
  • Asturian: nuesu, nuesa, nuesos, nuesa
  • Leonese: nuésu, nuésa, nuésus, nuésas
  • Mirandese: nuosso, nuossa, nuossos, nuossas
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
  • Eonavian: noso, nosa, nosos, nosas
  • Galician: noso, nosa, nosos, nosas
  • Portuguese: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas
• Romansch: noss, nossa, nossas

References

• “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• noster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    
  • in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
    
  • our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
    
  • a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet
    
  • the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43)
    
  • to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)