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|lshtext=<b>noster</b>: stra, strum (<br /><b>I</b> gen. [[sing]]. f. nostrāï, Vel. Long. p. 2222 P.; gen. plur. [[nostrum]], Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 25;<br /> v. [[infra]].), pron. poss. [nos], [[our]], [[our]] [[own]]; ours, of us.<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> For the poss. gen. of the [[first]] [[person]]: nostra [[omnis]] lis est, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 75: averti praedam ab hostibus, [[nostrum]] [[salute]] socium, id. Men. 1, 2, 25; cf. Prisc. p. 743 P.: nostris consiliis et laboribus, Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 3: [[Rhodanus]], qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit, Caes. B. G. 1, 2: patrum nostrorum memoriā, id. ib. 1, 12: [[exemplo]] majorum nostrorum, Liv. 24, 8, 17.—Strengthened by the suff. -pte: nostrāpte culpā facimus ut, etc., Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 1.—Strengthened by an appositive gen.: qui de nostro omnium interitu cogitant, Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 9: in nostro omnium fletu nullam lacrimam aspexisti Milonis, id. Mil. 34, 92: cui credas nostram omnium vitam, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 32: nostra omnium delicta, Greg. M. Lit. Sacram. N. 820.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Rarely for the [[object]]-gen.: ne aspernere amorique nostro [[plusculum]] [[etiam]] [[quam]] concedet [[veritas]], largiare, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of or belonging to us, one of ours, one of us, [[our]] [[friend]], ours: [[certe]] tu me alienabis [[numquam]] [[quin]] [[noster]] [[siem]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 243; cf. id. Mil. 2, 5, 20: [[noster]] est, he belongs to us, is of [[our]] [[house]], id. ib. 2, 3, 79; id. As. 1, 1, 43; 2, 2, 86; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3: Ciceronem [[nostrum]] [[quid]] [[tibi]] commendem? id. ib.: impedimentis castrisque nostri potiti sunt, i. e. [[our]] men, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: o [[noster]] [[misericors]] [[quid]] facis? Cic. Pis. 8, 17: ut ait poëta [[ille]] [[noster]], id. Rab. Post. 10, 28; id. Sen. 7, 24; id. Tusc. 5, 36, 103; Col. 1, 3, 26; 2, 8, 1; cf.: hic [[noster]], quem principem ponimus, i. e. he of whom we are [[speaking]], Cic. Or. 28, 99: divi, quorum est [[potestas]] nostrorum hostiumque, Liv. 8, 9: [[quisquis]] es, Noster eris, a [[formula]] made [[use]] of on receiving a [[deserter]] [[into]] the [[army]], Liv. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 148: [[noster]] esto, an [[expression]] of [[assent]] and [[applause]], Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 25; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 39: [[minume]] [[istuc]] faciet [[noster]] [[Daemones]], [[our]] [[good]] [[friend]] Dæmones, i. e. I, id. Rud. 4, 7, 19; so, [[novi]] ego nostros, id. Ep. 1, 2, 45; id. Stich. 1, 2, 26: per totum hoc [[tempus]] subjectior in diem et horam Invidiae [[noster]], Hor. S. 2, 6, 48; v. Orell. ad h. l.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In addressing a [[person]], [[dear]], [[good]]: o Syre [[noster]], [[salve]], [[quid]] [[fit]]? [[quid]] agitur? etc., Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Convenient for us, favorable to us: nostra loca, Liv. 9, 19: [[hora]] nostra est, Sil. 12, 193.
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