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Latin
Etymology
From nātūra (“nature”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nātūrālis (neuter nātūrāle, adverb nātūrāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- natural by birth, legitimate
- of or pertaining to nature
- of or pertaining to something's nature or qualities
- real, not fictitious
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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References
- “naturalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “naturalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- naturalis 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)
- naturalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- physics; natural philosophy: physica (-orum) (Or. 34. 119); philosophia naturalis