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natant

natant is a Latin form of nato, meaning “swim, float”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 2.8: … ponnesum Aenianes et Doris et Dolopes soli absunt a mari. Quid dicam insulas Graeciae? quae fluctibus cinctae natant paene ipsae simul cum civitatum institutis et moribus.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9.33.5: … spicere, interrogare audire narrare. Postero die obsident litus, prospectant mare et si quid est mari simile. Natant pueri, inter hos ille, sed cautius. Delphinus rursus ad tempus, rursus ad puerum. Fugit ille cum ceteris. Del …

All forms of nato (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.