nanctus

nanctus is a Latin form of nanciscor, meaning “obtain, get, come upon, find”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 89: haec tu, Eruci, tot et tanta si nanctus esses in reo, quam diu diceres! quo te modo iactares! tempus hercule te citius quam oratio deficeret. etenim …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.2: … s delapsum nutriens amorem et denegati thalami permiscens indignationem, cruento facinori quaerebat accessum. Nanctus denique praesentiae suae tempestillam occasionem, sceleri quod diu cogitarat accingitur, ac die, quo praedonu …

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.