natio

See also: natío

Italian

Adjective

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

1. 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]
• (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

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
  • → Middle Dutch: nacie
    • Dutch: natie
  • → Middle English: nacioun
    • English: nation
    • → Irish: náisiún
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: naçon
  • Galician: nazon
  • Portuguese: nação
• → Russian: нация (nacija)
  • → Ukrainian: нація (nacija)
• → Spanish: nación
  • Chavacano: nacion
  • → 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • distant nations: longinquae nationes
    
  • an Englishman by birth: natione, genere Anglus