nazionale Italian · revision 38988

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /nat.t͡sjoˈna.le/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nazionale''' ''m or f'' by sense (plural nazionali)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|it|nazione|-ale]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary compares [[la-new|nātiōnālis]], a modern formation on the model of the European languages.^(Wiktionary) The noun is a learned borrowing of [[la|nātiō|t=birth; people, nation]], from [[m|la|nāscor|t=to be born]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is a document of 1488, in the sense “of the nation”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010) DEI and Nocentini date the adjective to the 15th century.^(DEI|2557)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Tommaseo's dictionary (1861) knows ''nazionale'' as “of the same nation” and “belonging to the nation”, with phrases such as ''guardia nazionale'', the citizen militia, and ''concilio nazionale'', an assembly of a nation's bishops.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Its weight grew with the political idea of the nation, which entered Italian with new force at the time of the French Revolution.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ In the 20th century the adjective named state bodies and goods (the ''Biblioteca nazionale'', the ''strada nazionale''), and became a noun: ''la nazionale'' is the national team, and ''un nazionale'' a player in it, both recorded in 1958.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) ''Nazionali'' were also a cheap brand of cigarettes of the state monopoly.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1488 – ''Nazionale'' appears in a document.^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ * 1834 – ''Nazionalizzare'' is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * 1847 – ''Internazionale'' is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * 1958 – The nouns ''la nazionale'' “national team” and ''il nazionale'' “national player” are recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|national]], of a nation as a people with a shared language and culture: ''la lingua nazionale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # Of a nation as a state or economy; produced in the country, [[m|en|domestic]]: ''prodotti nazionali''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # Concerning the whole country, as opposed to regional or local: ''uno sciopero nazionale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # Of institutions depending on the central state: ''il museo nazionale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(sport)'' ''la nazionale'': the [[m|en|national team]]: ''Ha giocato tre partite con la nazionale.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(sport)'' A player in a national team.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A state road, ''la strada nazionale''.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(dated)'' A cheap brand of cigarette of the Italian state monopoly.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nazionalismo]]

+ * [[nazionalista]]

+ * [[nazionalità]]

+ * [[nazionalizzare]]

+ * [[nazionalmente]]

+ * [[internazionale]]

+ * [[connazionale]]

+ * [[sovranazionale]]

+ * [[transnazionale]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nazione]]

+ * [[nascere]]

+ * [[la-new|nātiōnālis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}