natio

Adjective

natio (feminine natia, masculine plural nati, feminine plural natie)

1. native (relating to a place of birth)

Anagrams

• Anito, aonti, atoni, notai, tonai

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gnātjō. 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, tribe, people
3. race, class

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