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Latin
Etymology
From nātus (“born”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nātīvus (feminine nātīva, neuter nātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- created, made
- inborn, innate, imparted by birth
- natural, native, made by nature and not artificial
- (grammar, of words) original, primitive, primary
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “nativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nativus 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)
- nativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.