natis

natis

1. past of natar

From an apparent Proto-Indo-European *not- (“rear, buttock”), related to Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton); however, the phonetics are problematic.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈna.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.t̪is]

natis f (genitive natis); third declension

1. rump, buttocks
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 11.43:

     Incurvābat Hylān positō Tīrynthius arcū:
     Tū Megarān crēdis nōn habuisse natīs?

     The Tirynthian man would put down his bow and bend Hylān over— do you think Megarā had no arse?

More common in the plural form.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• clūnis

• ⇒ Late Latin: *natica
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: natica
  • Padanian:
    • Ligurian: næga
    • Piedmontese: naja
    • Venetan: nadega
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: nage
    • French: nache
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: natja
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: nalga, ñalga
    • Galician: nádega
    • Portuguese: nádega, nalga
    • Spanish: nalga
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: nàdia, nàdica, nàdiga
    • Sicilian: nàtica
• English: nates (unadapted borrowing)

nātīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of nātus

• “natis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “natis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• natis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.