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nacta

nacta is a Latin form of nanciscor, meaning “obtain, get, come upon, find”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.1: Totam igitur expectas prudentiam huius rectoris, quae ipsum nomen hoc nacta est ex providendo. Quam ob rem se comparet hic civis ita necesse est, ut sit contra haec, quae statum civitat …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.603: Nacta locum Procne sacrorum pignera demit

All forms of nanciscor (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.