natura
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin natūra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natura f (plural natures)
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Further reading edit
- “natura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Esperanto edit
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Adjective edit
natura (accusative singular naturan, plural naturaj, accusative plural naturajn)
- natural
- Antonyms: kontraŭnatura, nenatura
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natura f (plural naturas)
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References edit
- “natura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “natura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “natura” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “natura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “natura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “natura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
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natura f (plural nature)
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Ladin edit
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natura f (plural natures)
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra (compare Spanish natura).
Noun edit
natura f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling נאטורה)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From nāscor (“be born”) + -tūra.
Pronunciation edit
- nātūra: (Classical) IPA(key): /naːˈtuː.ra/, [näːˈt̪uːrä]
- nātūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /naˈtu.ra/, [näˈt̪uːrä]
Noun edit
nātūra f (genitive nātūrae); first declension
- nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing
- character, temperament, inclination, disposition
- the natural world
- Nātūra non facit saltūs
- Nature does not make leaps.
- Nātūra non facit saltūs
- penis, organs of generation, the natural parts
- Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated P.G. Walsh
- nec ūllum miserae refōrmātiōnis videō sōlācium, nisi quod mihi iam nequeuntī tenēre Photidem nātūra crēscēbat.
- The sole consolation I could see in this wretched transformation was the swelling of my penis - though now I could not embrace Photis.
- nec ūllum miserae refōrmātiōnis videō sōlācium, nisi quod mihi iam nequeuntī tenēre Photidem nātūra crēscēbat.
- Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated P.G. Walsh
- (rare) birth
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nātūra | nātūrae |
Genitive | nātūrae | nātūrārum |
Dative | nātūrae | nātūrīs |
Accusative | nātūram | nātūrās |
Ablative | nātūrā | nātūrīs |
Vocative | nātūra | nātūrae |
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Descendants edit
- Inherited forms meaning 'vagina':
Borrowings meaning 'nature':
- → Albanian: natyrë
- → Catalan: natura
- → Irish: nádúr
- → Italian: natura
- → Old French: nature
- → Old Spanish: natura
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: natura
- Galician: natura
- → Polish: natura
- → Portuguese: natura
- → Romanian: natură
- → Romansch: natüra
- → Russian: нату́ра (natúra)
- → Swedish: natur
- → Sicilian: natura
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nātūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 45
Further reading edit
- “natura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “natura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- natura 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)
- to devote oneself to the study of a natural science: se conferre ad naturae investigationem
- innate goodness, kindness: naturae bonitas (Off. 1. 32. 118)
- natural advantages: naturae bona
- (ambiguous) creation; nature: rerum natura or simply natura
- (ambiguous) climate: caelum or natura caeli
- (ambiguous) the natural position of a place: natura loci
- (ambiguous) natural gifts: natura et ingenium
- (ambiguous) to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
- (ambiguous) to have a natural propensity to vice: natura proclivem esse ad vitia
- (ambiguous) character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores
- (ambiguous) Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)
- (ambiguous) to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
- (ambiguous) a town with a strong natural position: oppidum natura loci munitum (B. G. 1. 38)
- to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)
- “natura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Maltese edit
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Noun edit
natura f (plural naturi)
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Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin nātūra. Compare Old Spanish and Old Occitan natura.
Noun edit
natura f (plural naturas)
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- Galician: natura
Further reading edit
Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.
Noun edit
natura f (nominative singular natura)
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Old Spanish edit
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Noun edit
natura f (plural naturas)
- nature, quality
- Idem, f. 45r.
- De natura es fria et ſeca. ⁊ las ſus uertudes son contrarias a ſu natura. […]
- And it is cold and dry in nature, and its virtues are contrary to its nature; […]
- (anatomy) vulva, female genitals
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 9r:
- Et aun a otra uertud muy eſtranna. que ſi la molierẽ ⁊ la amaſſaren cõ uino ⁊ fizierẽ della como bellota. ⁊ la puſieren en la natura dela mugier, uieda que no enprenne.
- And it has yet another very strange virtue; that if it were to be ground and mixed with wine and shaped like an acorn, and put inside the vulva of the woman, it would prevent her from not becoming pregnant.
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natura f (plural nature)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natura f
- nature (entirety of the natural world)
- Synonym: przyroda
- nature (key characteristics of something or something's natural behavior)
- On jest dość miły z natury. ― He's quite nice by nature.
Declension edit
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Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra. Compare Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese natura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natura f (plural naturas)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natura f (plural naturas)
- nature
- Synonym: naturaleza
Verb edit
natura
- inflection of naturar:
References edit
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading edit
- “natura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin in natura, used since the 17th century.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -²ʉːra
Noun edit
natura c (uncountable)
- in-kind (non-monetary payment), most often used in the adverbial postfix phrase in natura, sometimes i natura, and in compounds
- betalning i natura ― in-kind payment
Usage notes edit
- The form "i natura," which is only mentioned in SAOB, appears to be more common in practice when comparing "lön i/in natura" and "betalt i/in natura" on Google.
- Often (jocularly) of being paid in sexual favors, especially in the form "betalt i(n) natura."