natis

Ido

Verb

natis

1. past of natar

Latin

Etymology 1

From an apparent Proto-Indo-European *not- (“rear, buttock”), related to Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton); however, the phonetics are problematic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈna.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.tis]

Noun

natis f (genitive natis); third declension

1. rump; buttocks
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 11.43:

     Incurvābat Hylān positō Tīrynthius arcū:
     Tū Megarān crēdis nōn habuisse natīs?

     The Tirynthian man would put down his bow and bend Hylān over— do you think Megarā had no arse?

Usage notes

More common in the plural form.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	natis	natēs
genitive	natis	natium
dative	natī	natibus
accusative	natem	natēs natīs
ablative	nate	natibus
vocative	natis	natēs

Synonyms

• clūnis

Descendants

• ⇒ Late Latin: *natica
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: natica
  • Padanian:
    • Ligurian: næga
    • Piedmontese: naja
    • Venetan: nadega
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: nage
    • French: nache
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: natja
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: nalga, ñalga
      • → Portuguese: nalga
      • → Spanish: nalga
    • Galician: nádega
    • Portuguese: nádega
    • Spanish: (obsolete) nadga
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: nàdia, nàdica, nàdiga
    • Sicilian: nàtica
• English: nates (unadapted borrowing)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.tis]

Verb

nātis

1. second-person plural present active indicative of nō

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.tiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.tis]

Participle

nātīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of nātus

Noun

nātīs

1. dative/ablative plural of nātus (“son”) and nāta (“daughter”)

References

• “natis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “natis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “natis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.