naturalis

Latin

Etymology

From nātūra (“nature”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /naː.tuːˈraː.lis/, [näːt̪uːˈräːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /na.tuˈra.lis/, [nät̪uˈräːlis]

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.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	nātūrālis	nātūrāle		nātūrālēs	nātūrālia
Genitive	nātūrālis			nātūrālium
Dative	nātūrālī			nātūrālibus
Accusative	nātūrālem	nātūrāle		nātūrālēs nātūrālīs	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, naturel, naturalle, naturelle, naturell, naturall, 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’s 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