Where does “nature” come from?
nature (Novial) comes from Latin natura, from Latin natus, from Latin nasci, from Latin nascor, from Latin gnascor, from Proto-Italic gnāskōr, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
nature (Novial): nature
Definitions
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Ancestry of “nature”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | natura | nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing;... |
| 2 | Latin | natus | born, arisen, made; son, birth, age, years;... |
| 3 | Latin | nasci | present active infinitive of nāscor; to be born,... |
| 4 | Latin | nascor | I am born, begotten; I arise, proceed; I grow,... |
| 5 | Latin | gnascor | Alternative form of nāscor; be born |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | gnāskōr | be born |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |