innate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin innātus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of innāscor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“be born”); see natal, native.
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innate (not comparable)
- Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
- Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
- Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
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- Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.
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- See also Wikisaurus:innate
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[edit] Verb
innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)
- To cause to exist; to call into being.
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- innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- innate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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innate pl.
- feminine form of innato
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innāte
- vocative masculine singular of innātus
