nature
Old French
noun
Definitions
- nature (natural world; nonhuman world)
- nature (character; qualities)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nātūra (nature, birth, origin, natural constitution quality).
Origin
Latin
nātūra
Gloss
nature, birth, origin, natural constitution quality
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
生
Emoji
🤰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nature English
- natura Latin
- naturalis Latin
- nātūra Latin
- praeternaturalis Latin
- natura Italian
- natuur Dutch, Flemish
- dénaturer French
- nature French
- naturisme French
- натура Russian
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- natura Polish
- natural Middle English
- nature Middle English
- nádúr Irish
- náttúra Old Norse
- natur Danish
- náttúra Icelandic
- natură Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nature Middle Dutch
- natyrë Albanian
- nature Middle French
- natura Maltese
- natura Old Occitan
- natura Old Spanish
- nati Haitian, Haitian Creole
- nature Novial