Nos
/nɒs/noun
A Latin word meaning “we.”
Did you know?In Latin, *nos* is the first-person plural pronoun, and its deep Indo-European relatives show up in words for collective identity across many languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wéy
“First-person plural pronoun root, “we””
Proto-Italic
Italic
*nos
““We””
Classical Latin
Latin
nōs
““We” as subject pronoun”
Late Latin / Romance
Latin
nōs
“Continues as a learned form in quotations and fixed phrases”
Modern English
English
nos
“Usually encountered as a Latin loanword or in mottos, scholarly writing, and set expressions”