noster

Inherited from Proto-Italic *nosteros.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔs.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔs.ter]

noster (feminine nostra, neuter nostrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative

1. (possessive) our, ours
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.213–214:

     “[...] cōnūbia nostra / reppulit, ac dominum Aenēān in rēgna recēpit.”

     “[The woman …] has rejected our marriage-offer, and accepted Aeneas as lord in her realm.”
     (King Iarbas, whom Queen Dido has rejected, refers to himself using the “royal we.”)

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.

• vester/voster

• “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “noster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “noster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    
  • in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
    
  • our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
    
  • a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet
    
  • the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43)
    
  • to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)