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Italian
Adjective
natio (feminine natia, masculine plural nati, feminine plural natie)
- native (relating to a place of birth)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *gnātjō. Equivalent to nāscor (“to be born”) + -tiō (“verbal abstract noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nātiō f (genitive nātiōnis); third declension
- birth
- nation, tribe, people
- race, class
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “natio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “natio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- natio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- natio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- distant nations: longinquae nationes
- an Englishman by birth: natione, genere Anglus