natio Latin · revision 3765

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈnaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈnat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nātiō''' ''f'' (genitive nātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nascor|-tio|alt1=nāscor|t1=to be born]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[inh|itc-pro|*gnāsk-e/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*ǵn̥h₁-sk-e/o-|t=to be born]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus onwards,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who asks “of what nation was he then?”.^(OLD 2012) An inscription from Praeneste records a gift to Fortuna “for the sake of a birth”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was birth, and Cicero mentions a goddess Natio, worshipped at Ardea, who watched over childbirth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From birth it came to mean a people or race.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Plautus used it of a class of people, as his fishermen, “a hungry race of men”, and Cicero of “the whole tribe of candidates”.^(OLD 2012) It meant a breed of animals, nationality, and the place of origin of natural products, as Pliny's honey and wax.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Medieval Latin it also meant the heathen.^(Köbler 2010) English ''nation'' came from it about 1300.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of peoples and classes of men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions the goddess Natio.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the origin of honey.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''nation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Birth, ''Natio'': the goddess of birth.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A people, race, [[m|en|nation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A class, set (of people).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A breed (of animals); nationality.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # The place of origin (of products).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The heathen.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nātiōnālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nāscor]]

+ * [[en|nation]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein groups ''gens'' and ''natio'', a people by descent, against ''populus'' and ''civitas'', a people as a political body.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}