different between native vs natal

English

Etymology

From Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin n?t?vus, from n?tus (“birth”). Doublet of naive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ne?t?v/
• (US)
  • (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?ne?t?v/
  • IPA^(key): /?ne?t?v/
• Rhymes: -e?t?v
• Hyphenation: na?tive

Adjective

native (comparative more native, superlative most native)

1. Belonging to one by birth.

2. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.

3. Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
4. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

5. (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.

6. (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

7. (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
8. Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

9. Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
10. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

Synonyms

• (belonging to one by birth): inborn, innate; See also Thesaurus:innate
• (born or grown in the region in which it is found): aboriginal, autochthonous, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:native

Antonyms

• (born or grown in the region in which it is found): foreign, fremd; See also Thesaurus:foreign

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

native (plural natives)

1. A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
2. (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
   • 2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (?ISBN):

     Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […] "

   • 2013, James Ciment, Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It, Hill and Wang (?ISBN), page 72:

     As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance.

3. A native speaker.
4. Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.

Usage notes

• In North America, native/Native came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as Indian began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include Native American, Native Canadian, and American Indian. In Canada, the terms include Inuit and Metis and the adjectives First Nation/First Nations.

Synonyms

• homeling (uncommon, obsolete)

Derived terms

• the natives are restless

Translations

See also

• native cat
• nativity
• nativization

References

• native at OneLook Dictionary Search
• native in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "native" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 215.
• native in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.tiv/
• Homophone: natives

Adjective

native

1. feminine singular of natif

Anagrams

• enviât, vanité, veinât, venait

Italian

Adjective

native

1. feminine plural of nativo

Noun

native f pl

1. plural of nativa

Anagrams

• aventi, avinte, evinta, venati

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /na??ti?.u?e/, [nä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /na?ti.ve/, [n??t?i?v?]

Adjective

n?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of n?t?vus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [na?ti.ve]

Adjective

native

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of nativ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?t?l/
• Rhymes: -e?t?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin n?t?lis (“natal”), from n?tus, perfect active participle of n?scor (“I am born”), from gn?scor, from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?-.

Adjective

natal

1. Of or relating to birth.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin natis (“rump”), plural nates.

Adjective

natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)

1. Of or relating to the buttocks.

Related terms

• nates
• natiform

Translations

Further reading

• natal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• natal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• alant

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin natalis. Doublet of Nadal.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /n??tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /na?tal/

Adjective

natal (masculine and feminine plural natals)

1. natal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?t?lis. Doublet of Noël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.tal/

Adjective

natal (feminine singular natale, masculine plural nataux, feminine plural natales)

1. native

   ville natale — home town

Further reading

• “natal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese natal, from Latin natalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nat?al]
• Hyphenation: na?tal

Noun

natal (plural natal-natal, first-person possessive natalku, second-person possessive natalmu, third-person possessive natalnya)

1. birth.

Alternative forms

• Natal (“Christmas”)

Affixed terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “natal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin natalis.

Adjective

natal (masculine and feminine natal, neuter natalt, definite singular and plural natale, comparative natalare, indefinite superlative natalast, definite superlative natalaste)

1. pertaining to birth

References

• “natal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin natalis. Doublet of Nadal.

Adjective

natal m or f (plural natais, comparable)

1. natal (of or relating to birth)

   Synonym: natalício

2. native (relating to the place where one was born)

Derived terms

• terra natal
• país natal

Romanian

Etymology

From French natal

Adjective

natal m or n (feminine singular natal?, masculine plural natali, feminine and neuter plural natale)

1. natal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?t?lis (“natal”). Compare also the doublet nadal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?tal/, [na?t?al]

Adjective

natal (plural natales)

1. natal
2. native

3. home

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