Where does “nativité” come from?
nativité (French) comes from Old French nativité, from Latin nativitas, from Latin nātīvus, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵn̥h₁tós, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
nativité (French): nativity; birth
Ancestry of “nativité”, step by step