natio
See also: natío
Italian
Adjective
natio (feminine natia, masculine plural nati, feminine plural natie)
- native (relating to a place of birth)
Anagrams
- Anito, aonti, atoni, notai, tonai
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *gnātjō. Equivalent to nāscor (“to be born”) + -tiō (“verbal abstract noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnaː.ti.oː/, [ˈnäːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnat.t͡si.o/, [ˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
nātiō f (genitive nātiōnis); third declension
- birth
- nation, country, people
- 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
- Asturian: nazon (“offspring, cub”) (inherited?)
- → Catalan: nació
- → German: Nation
- → Italian: nazione
- → Corsican: nazione, nazioni
- → Friulian: nazion
- → Ladin: nazion
- → Maltese: nazzjon
- → Romanian: națiune
- → Occitan: nacion
- → Old French: nacion
- Middle French: nation
- French: nation
- Haitian Creole: nasyon
- → Piedmontese: nassion
- French: nation
- → Middle Dutch: nacie
- Dutch: natie
- → Middle English: nacioun
- English: nation
- → Irish: náisiún
- Middle French: nation
- → Old Portuguese: naçon
- Galician: nazon
- Portuguese: nação
- → Russian: нация (nacija)
- → Ukrainian: нація (nacija)
- → Spanish: nación
- → Asturian: nación
- → Bikol Central: nasyon
- → Cebuano: nasyon
- → Galician: nación
- → Yatzachi Zapotec: 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- distant nations: longinquae nationes
- an Englishman by birth: natione, genere Anglus
- distant nations: longinquae nationes