natio

See also: natío

Italian

Adjective

1. native (relating to a place of birth)

Anagrams

• Anito
• atoni
• notai
• tonai

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Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *gnātiō. Equivalent to nāscor (“to be born”) +‎ -tiō (“verbal abstract noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.ti.oː/, [ˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnat.t͡si.o/, [ˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

nātiō f (genitive nātiōnis); third declension

1. birth
2. nation, country, people
3. race, class

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nātiō	nātiōnēs
Genitive	nātiōnis	nātiōnum
Dative	nātiōnī	nātiōnibus
Accusative	nātiōnem	nātiōnēs
Ablative	nātiōne	nātiōnibus
Vocative	nātiō	nātiōnēs

Derived terms

• nātiōnālis (“national”)

Related terms

• nāscor

Descendants

• Catalan: nació
• Dutch: natie
• Old French: nacion
  • Middle English: nacioun
    • English: nation
  • Middle French: nation
    • French: nation
      • Haitian Creole: nasyon
  • Irish: náisiún

• Italian: nazione
• Maltese: nazzjon
• Portuguese: nação
• Romanian: națiune
• Russian: нация (nacija)
• Spanish: nación
  • Cebuano: nasyon

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • distant nations: longinquae nationes
    
  • an Englishman by birth: natione, genere Anglus