natus

Ido

Verb

natus

1. conditional of natar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.tus/, [ˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.tus/, [ˈnäːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”). From older gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“produced, given birth”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth, beget”). The form genitus (used as the perfect passive participle of gignō) is a later creation, and forms a doublet.

Alternative forms

• gnātus

Participle

nātus (feminine nāta, neuter nātum); first/second-declension participle

1. born, arisen, made

   e/pro re nata ― under the circumstances

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	nātus	nāta	nātum		nātī	nātae	nāta
Genitive	nātī	nātae	nātī		nātōrum	nātārum	nātōrum
Dative	nātō		nātō		nātīs
Accusative	nātum	nātam	nātum		nātōs	nātās	nāta
Ablative	nātō	nātā	nātō		nātīs
Vocative	nāte	nāta	nātum		nātī	nātae	nāta

Related terms

• nātālis
• nātīvitās
• nātīvus

Descendants

• Aromanian: nat
• Catalan: nat
• Old Francoprovençal: naz, na
  • Franco-Provençal: ná
• Old French: né
  • French: né
    • → English: né
• Istriot: nato
• Italian: nato
• Occitan: nat
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nada
  • Fala: nada
  • Galician: nada
  • Portuguese: nada (see there for further descendants)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nado
  • Galician: nado
  • Portuguese: nado
• Piedmontese: nà
• Romanian: nat
• Romansch: nat
• Sicilian: natu
• Spanish: nada, nadie
• Venetian: nato
• Borrowings:
  • → Galician: nato
  • → Portuguese: nato
  • → Spanish: nato

Noun

nātus m (genitive nātī, feminine nāta); second declension

1. son

   Synonym: fīlius

2. (in the plural) children

   Synonyms: fīlius, līber

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nātus	nātī
Genitive	nātī	nātōrum
Dative	nātō	nātīs
Accusative	nātum	nātōs
Ablative	nātō	nātīs
Vocative	nāte	nātī

Descendants

• Romanian: nat

Etymology 2

From nāscor (“to be born”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

nātus m (genitive nātūs); fourth declension

1. birth, age, years
   • From Adelphoe (The Brothers) by Terence (Terentius).

     Id mea minime refert qui sum natu maximus.

     If our means fail, that least concerns me, as I am the eldest (of most age).

   • 44 BCE, Cicero, De Officiis I.122:

     est igitur adulescentis maiores natu vereri

     and therefore it is a young man’s [duty] to respect his elders

2. (of plants) growth, growing

Usage notes

• Used only in the ablative singular case natū.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nātus	nātūs
Genitive	nātūs	nātuum
Dative	nātuī	nātibus
Accusative	nātum	nātūs
Ablative	nātū	nātibus
Vocative	nātus	nātūs

Derived terms

• maior nātū
• minor nātū

 

References

• “natus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “natus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• natus 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)
• natus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
    
  • a native of Rome: Romae natus, (a) Roma oriundus
    
  • aged: grandis natu
    
  • the elde: maior (natu)
    
  • how old are you: quot annos natus es?
    
  • I am thirteen years old: tredecim annos natus sum
    
  • this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
    
  • within the memory of man: post homines natos
    
  • to be born for a thing, endowed by nature for it: natum, factum esse ad aliquid (faciendum)
    
  • to be a born orator: natum, factum esse ad dicendum
    
  • of high rank: summo loco natus
    
  • of illustrious family: nobili, honesto, illustri loco or genere natus
    
  • of humble, obscure origin: humili, obscuro loco natus
    
  • of humble, obscure origin: humilibus (obscuris) parentibus natus
    
  • from the lowest classes: infimo loco natus
    
  • a knight by birth: equestri loco natus or ortus
    
  • (ambiguous) according to circumstances: pro re (nata), pro tempore
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti