naturalis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁-sḱé-ti

Proto-Italic *gnāskōrder.

Latin nāscor

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin nātūra

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nātūrālis

From nātūra (“nature”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [naː.tuːˈraː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [na.tuˈraː.lis]

Adjective

nātūrālis (neuter nātūrāle, adverb nātūrāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. natural by birth, legitimate
2. of or pertaining to nature
3. of or pertaining to something's nature or qualities
4. real, not fictitious

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	nātūrālis	nātūrāle		nātūrālēs	nātūrālia
genitive	nātūrālis			nātūrālium
dative	nātūrālī			nātūrālibus
accusative	nātūrālem	nātūrāle		nātūrālīs nātūrālēs	nātūrālia
ablative	nātūrālī			nātūrālibus
vocative	nātūrālis	nātūrāle		nātūrālēs	nātūrālia

Related terms

• nātūra

Descendants

• → Catalan: natural
• → Galician: natural
• Italian: naturale
• → Old French: natural
  • → Middle English: natural, naturall, naturalle, natureel, naturel, naturell, naturelle, naturill
    • English: natural
    • Scots: naitural
  • French: naturel
    • → Breton: naturel
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: natural
  • Portuguese: natural
• Romanian: natural
• Sicilian: naturali
• Spanish: natural
  • → Tagalog: natural

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, 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • physics; natural philosophy: physica (-orum) (Or. 34. 119); philosophia naturalis