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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive.
Compare also inborn.
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native (comparative more native, superlative most native)
- Belonging to one by birth or ancestry.
This is my native land. English is not my native language. I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
1509, Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem (Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages; vol. XVIII.), reprinted from the edition of 1555, London: Percy Society, published 1846, cap. xxiv. “Of the five internall wittes.”, stanza 14, lines 1–5, page 111:In my natyf language I wyl not opres, / More of her werke, for it is obscure; / Who wyl therof knowe all the perfeytnes / In phylosophy he shall fynde it ryght sure, / Whyche all the trouth can to hym discure.
1593, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene iii, line 160:The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares (My natiue English) now I must forgo.
- ibidem, line 173:
Thy sentence…robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath.
1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, second edition, page 37:They have a native language of their owne, but the Persian tongue is understood by most.
c. 1700, Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude, first quatrain:Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound, / Content to breathe his native air / In his own ground.
1780, James Harris, Philological Inquiries (pages 385–539), in The Works of James Harris, Esq., with an account of His Life and Character, by his son, The Earl of Malmesbury., Oxford: printed by J. Vincent for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, London, published 1841, part III (pages 454–539), chapter xiv. “Superior Literature and Knowledge both of the Greek and Latin Clergy […] ” (pages 529–533), page 529:Those of the western church were obliged to acquire some knowledge of Latin; and for Greek, to those of the eastern church it was still (with a few corruptions) their native language.
1877, Maria Margaret Grant, The Sun-Maid. A Romance., page viii:They were dressed in their native costumes.
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
Many native artists studied abroad.
- Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- native oysters or strawberries
Clover is not native to the Americas, but it is firmly established there.
- (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds. The native integer size is sixteen bits. - cloud native, crypto native
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
- native aluminium
- native salt
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- native dust
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades,
Fit haunt of Gods?
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:The head is not more native to the heart, […]
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
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belonging to one by birth — see also natal
- Albanian: amëtar
- Armenian: հայրենի (hy) (hayreni), մայրենի (hy) (mayreni)
- Assamese: থলুৱা (tholua)
- Azerbaijani: doğma (az)
- Bashkir: туған (tuğan)
- Belarusian: ро́дны (ródny)
- Bulgarian: роден (bg) (roden)
- Czech: rodný (cs) m
- Dutch: moeder-, geboorte-, aangeboren (nl)
- Esperanto: denaska
- Finnish: syntyperäinen (fi), syntymä- (fi)
- French: maternel (fr)
- Galician: nativo (gl) m
- German: gebürtig (de)
- Greek: γενέθλιος (el) m (genéthlios), μητρικός (el) m (mitrikós)
- Hindi: मूल (hi) m (mūl), उत्पत्ति (hi) f (utpatti)
- Hungarian: született (hu), … születésű, szülött (hu) (of a place, with a possessive suffix), szülő- (hu) (of a language), anya- (hu) (of a language)
- Italian: nativo (it), natio (it) m
- Latin: indiges
- Macedonian: роден (roden)
- Maltese: nattiv
- Polish: rodzimy (pl) m, ojczysty (pl) m
- Portuguese: nativo (pt)
- Romanian: nativ (ro), de la naștere, matern (ro)
- Russian: родно́й (ru) (rodnój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: староседеоц, са̏мородан, рођени
- Latin: starosedeoc (sh), sȁmorodan (sh), rođeni (sh)
- Telugu: జన్మస్థలం (te) (janmasthalaṁ)
- Ukrainian: рі́дний (uk) (rídnyj)
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- Albanian: autokton (sq)
- Assamese: থলুৱা (tholua)
- Belarusian: карэ́нны (karénny), тузе́мны (tuzjémny), тубы́льны (tubýlʹny), тубы́льчы (tubýlʹčy)
- Bulgarian: туземен (bg) (tuzemen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 土著 (zh) (tǔzhù, tǔzhuó)
- Danish: indfødt
- Dutch: oorspronkelijk (nl), ingeboren (nl), inheems (nl), geboren en getogen
- Esperanto: indiĝena
- Finnish: alkuperäinen (fi), alkuperäis- (fi)
- French: autochtone (fr), indigène (fr)
- Georgian: მკვიდრი (mḳvidri), ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi)
- German: gebürtig (de)
- Greek: γηγενής (el) m (gigenís), αυτόχθων (el) m (aftóchthon)
- Ancient Greek: αὐτόχθων (autókhthōn)
- Hindi: मूल (hi) m (mūl), उत्पत्ति (hi) f (utpatti)
- Hungarian: őslakó (hu), honos (hu), őshonos (hu), bennszülött (hu)
- Italian: nativo (it), indigeno (it), autoctono (it), aborigeno (it)
- Japanese: 土着の (ja) (どちゃくの, dochaku no)
- Latin: indiges, indigenus
- Macedonian: мајчин (majčin), роден (roden)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: абориген (aborigen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: innfødt
- Nynorsk: innfødd
- Old English: inlende, inlendisċ
- Polish: rdzenny (pl) m, tubylczy (pl)
- Portuguese: indígena (pt), nativo (pt)
- Romanian: originar (ro)
- Russian: коренно́й (ru) (korennój), тузе́мный (ru) (tuzémnyj)
- Sanskrit: देशज (sa) (deśaja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: староседеоц, са̏мородан
- Latin: starosedeoc (sh), sȁmorodan (sh)
- Tagalog: katutubo (tl)
- Ukrainian: корінни́й (korinnýj), тубі́льний (tubílʹnyj)
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of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found
- Albanian: vendës (sq)
- Arabic: أَصْلِيّ (ʔaṣliyy)
- Assamese: থলুৱা (tholua)
- Bulgarian: местен (bg) (mesten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 本地 (zh) (běndì)
- Dutch: inheems (nl)
- Finnish: paikallinen (fi)
- French: natif (fr)
- German: einheimisch (de)
- Greek: ντόπιος (el) m (ntópios), ιθαγενής (el) m or f (ithagenís)
- Hindi: मूल (hi) m (mūl)
- Hungarian: helyi (hu) (local), helybeli (hu), helybéli (hu), eredeti (hu) (original), (innate) veleszületett (hu)
- Italian: nativo (it), oriundo (it)
- Japanese: 自国の (ja) (じこくの, jikoku no)
- Korean: 토산의 (tosan-ui)
- Macedonian: местен (mesten)
- Old English: inlende, inlendisċ
- Persian: بومی (fa) (bumi)
- Portuguese: nativo (pt), oriundo (pt)
- Romanian: localnic (ro), autohton (ro)
- Russian: родно́й (ru) (rodnój), ме́стный (ru) (méstnyj), тузе́мный (ru) (tuzémnyj) (oboriginal)
- Spanish: nativo (es), oriundo (es)
- Swedish: inhemsk (sv)
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biology: which occurs of its own accord in a given locality computing: pertaining to a particular system mineralogy: occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form arising by birth; having an origin original; constituting the original substance of anything naturally related; cognate Translations to be checked Noun
native (plural natives)
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- (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).
1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
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.
- A native speaker.
- A native plant or animal.
- Antonym: exotic
- An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
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person who is native to a place
- Amharic: ተወላጅ (täwälaǧ)
- Bulgarian: местен (bg) m (mesten)
- Catalan: indígena (ca) m or f, nadiu (ca) m, nadiua (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 當地人 / 当地人 (dāngdìrén), 本地人 (zh) (běndìrén)
- Czech: domorodec (cs) m, rodák m
- Dutch: autochtoon (nl) m, inwoner (nl) m; inboorling (nl) m (pejorative)
- Esperanto: indiĝeno, indiĝenino (female)
- Finnish: paikallinen asukas, alkuasukas (fi) (pejorative)
- German: Ureinwohner (de) m, Ureinwohnerin (de) f, Eingeborener (de) m, Eingeborene (de) f
- Italian: indigeno (it) m, aborigeno (it) m
- Korean: 현지인(現地人) (hyeonjiin), 원주민(原住民) (ko) (wonjumin)
- Latin: indigena m or f
- Macedonian: домо́родец m (domórodec)
- Malayalam: സ്വദേശി (ml) (svadēśi), നാട്ടുകാരൻ (ml) m (nāṭṭukāraṉ)
- Manx: dooghyssagh m, çheeragh m, fer dooie m, ben ghooie f
- Māori: tangata whenua
- Old English: inlenda m
- Polish: tubylec (pl) m, autochton (pl) m
- Portuguese: nativo (pt) m, indígena (pt) m or f; selvagem (pt) m or f (pejorative)
- Romanian: indigen (ro), autohton (ro)
- Russian: уроже́нец (ru) m (urožénec), уроже́нка (ru) f (urožénka), ме́стный (ru) m (méstnyj), ме́стная (ru) f (méstnaja), коренно́й жи́тель (ru) m (korennój žítelʹ), коренна́я жи́тельница f (korennája žítelʹnica), вы́ходец (ru) m (výxodec) (when living somewhere else, no feminine form exists); тузе́мец (ru) m (tuzémec), тузе́мка (ru) f (tuzémka), абориге́н (ru) m (aborigén), абориге́нка (ru) f (aborigénka) (pejorative)
- Scots: hamespun
- Spanish: indígena (es) m or f
- Tok Pisin: kanaka
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person of aboriginal descent See also
References
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Native, sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 32–33.
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Native, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 33–34.
- “native”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- native in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Native”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 215.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “native”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
native
- feminine singular of natif
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naˈti.ve/
- Rhymes: -ive
- Hyphenation: na‧tì‧ve
Adjective
native
- feminine plural of nativo
Noun
native f pl
- plural of nativa
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Latin
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Adjective
nātīve
- vocative masculine singular of nātīvus
Romanian
Pronunciation
Adjective
native
- feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of nativ
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