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natura

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: natură, natüra, and nátura

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

natura f (plural natures)

  1. nature

Further reading

Esperanto

Etymology

From naturo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈtura/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: na‧tu‧ra

Adjective

natura (accusative singular naturan, plural naturaj, accusative plural naturajn)

  1. natural
    Antonyms: kontraŭnatura, nenatura

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

natura f (plural naturas)

  1. vulva of a female mammal
  2. nature
  3. manner, way
  4. essence
  5. (archaic) type, kind, lineage

References

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin nātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈtu.ra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: na‧tù‧ra

Noun

natura f (plural nature)

  1. nature
  2. essence, character

Ladin

Noun

natura f (plural natures)

  1. nature

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra (compare Spanish natura).

Noun

natura f (Hebrew spelling נאטורה)

  1. nature

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From nāscor (“be born”) +‎ -tūra.

Noun

nātūra f (genitive nātūrae); first declension

  1. nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing
    Synonyms: habitus, ingenium, character
  2. character, temperament, inclination, disposition
    Synonyms: mēns, indolēs, character
  3. the natural world
    • Nātūra non facit saltūs
      Nature does not make leaps.
  4. 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.
  5. (rare) birth
Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...
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

Inherited forms meaning "vagina":

  • Franco-Provençal: [ɲyra], [ˈnɔːra], [ˈɲœːrə]
  • Romansch: nadüra, nadira

Borrowings meaning "nature":

References

Further reading

  • “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, 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)
  • “natura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 2

From nātūrō +‎ -ā.

Verb

nātūrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of nātūrō

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian natura.

Pronunciation

Noun

natura f (plural naturi)

  1. nature
  2. disposition
  3. (euphemistic) genitals

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātūra. Compare Old Spanish and Old Occitan natura.

Noun

natura f (plural naturas)

  1. nature, essence (essential characteristics)
    Synonym: natureza
  2. lineage

Descendants

Further reading

Old Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

Noun

natura f (nominative singular natura)

  1. nature

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

natura f (plural naturas)

  1. nature, quality
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 7v:
      […] aquella tierra o son falladas otras piedras de muchas naturas ⁊ muy nobles de que fablaremos adelante en eſte libro […]
      […] that land where other stones with many and very noble natures are found, of which we will speak later in this book […]
    • 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; […]
  2. (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.

Descendants

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

natura f (plural nature)

  1. nature

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈtu.ra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: na‧tu‧ra

Noun

natura f

  1. nature (entirety of the natural world)
    Synonym: przyroda
  2. nature (key characteristics of something or something's natural behavior)
    On jest dość miły z natury. ― He's quite nice by nature.

Declension

More information singular, nominative ...
singular
nominative natura
genitive natury
dative naturze
accusative naturę
instrumental naturą
locative naturze
vocative naturo
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Declension of natura

Derived terms

adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Further reading

  • natura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • natura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra. Compare Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese natura.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

natura f (plural naturas)

  1. (poetic) nature
    Synonym: natureza

Derived terms

Spanish

Swedish

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