Where does “naturalista” come from?
naturalista (Maltese) comes from Italian naturalista, from Italian naturale, from Latin nātūrālis, from Latin nātūra, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵn̥h₁tós — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
naturalista (Maltese): naturalist
Definitions
- naturalist
Ancestry of “naturalista”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | naturalista | naturalist |
| 2 | Italian | naturale | natural; still |
| 3 | Latin | nātūrālis | natural by birth, legitimate |
| 4 | Latin | nātūra | the nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing |
| 5 | Latin | nātus | born, arisen, made |
| 6 | Latin | gnātus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | gnātos | born |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵn̥h₁tós | begotten, produced |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |