FromLatinnunc.
nunc
- now
- Synonym:ora
Fromnum +-ce, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*nu(“now”), see alsoEnglishnow,Scotsnoo(“now”),Saterland Frisiannu(“now”),West Frisianno(“now”),Dutchnu,nou(“now”),Germannu,nun(“now”),Swedishnu(“now”),Icelandicnú(“now”),Latinnum(“even now, whether”),Albanianni(“now”),Lithuaniannù(“now”),Avestan𐬥𐬏(nū,“now”),Sanskritनु(nu,“now”),Greekνυν(nyn,“now”),Russianныне(nyne,“now”).
nunc (notcomparable)
- right now, at present, at this time, at this very moment
- Synonym:iam
63BCE,Cicero,Catiline Orations[1]:Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita utnunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.- As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, yet shall live; but you shall live as you donow, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid4.376–378:
- “[...]Nunc augur Apollō,
nunc Lyciae sortēs,nunc et Iove missus ab ipsō
interpres dīvum fert horrida iussa per aurās.”- “[...]Now the augur Apollo,now the Lycian oracles, andnow – sent by Jupiter himself! – the divine interpreter brings horrid orders through the air.”
(Word repetition oranaphora in Dido’s furious denunciation of the ever-changing excuses for Aeneas’s departure. Alternative translations: “First [it was] the augur Apollo,then the Lycian oracles, andnow…” or “One moment it was the augur Apollo,the next the Lycian oracles, andnow….”)
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti5.93–94:
- ‘hic, ubinunc Rōma est, orbis caput, arbor et herbae
et paucae pecudēs et casa rāra fuit.’- ‘‘Here, wherenow is Rome – the capital of the world! – there were trees and grass, and a few flocks, and here and there a hut.’’
(The museCalliope describes the scene as the early Roman ancestorEvander of Pallantium arrives in Italy.)
- Ave Maria — Hail Mary
- ...nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
- ...now, and in the hour of our death.
- Of the state of affairs, the condition of the argument, etc., under these circumstances, in view of this
"Nunc" always means the literal present or "now"; the other use of "now" is usually translated "iam".
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/nunc
- “nunc”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nunc”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “nunc”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
- our contemporaries; men of our time:homines qui nunc sunt (opp.qui tunc fuerunt)
- the question now is..:nunc id quaeritur, agitur
- the question at issue:res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
