NOSTRI, nostri
Sounds Like: NOHS-tree
Translations: our, of us, of our, of our own
From the root: NOSTER
Part of Speech: Pronoun, Adjective
Explanation: NOSTRI is an inflected form of the Latin possessive adjective/pronoun NOSTER, meaning 'our' or 'of us'. It indicates possession by the first person plural ('we'). It can function as a possessive adjective modifying a noun (e.g., 'our house') or as a possessive pronoun standing alone (e.g., 'the things of us'). Its specific meaning depends on its case and number.
Inflection: Genitive Singular (Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter), or Nominative Plural (Masculine)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 12:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, NOSTER.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- NOSTER — our, ours, a our, a ours
- NOSTRA — our, ours
- NOSTRAE — our, ours, of our, to our, for our
- NOSTRAM — our, ours
- NOSTRIS — (to) our, (to) ours, (from/with/by/in) our, (from/with/by/in) ours
- NOSTRO — to our, for our, by our, with our, from our
- NOSTRORUM — (of) ours, (of) our own, (of) our people, (of) our men, (of) our things
- NOSTRUM — our, ours, our thing, our possession
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