natura

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [naˈtu.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa

natura f (plural natures)

1. nature

• natural

• “natura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From naturo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtura/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: na‧tu‧ra

natura (accusative singular naturan, plural naturaj, accusative plural naturajn)

1. natural

   Antonyms: kontraŭnatura, nenatura

• netura

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtura̝/

natura f (plural naturas)

1. vulva of a female mammal
2. nature
3. manner, way
4. essence
5. (archaic) type, kind, lineage

• natural
• naturalmente
• natureza

• “natura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “natura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “natura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “natura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “natura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “natura”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: na‧tù‧ra

natura f (plural nature)

1. nature
2. essence, character

natura f (plural natures)

1. nature

From Old Spanish natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra (compare Spanish natura).

natura f (Hebrew spelling נאטורה)

1. nature

• natural

• nātūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [naːˈtuː.ra]
• nātūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [naˈt̪uː.ra]
• nātūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [naːˈtuː.raː]
• nātūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [naˈt̪uː.ra]

From nāscor (“be born”) +‎ -tūra.

nātūra f (genitive nātūrae); first declension

1. nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing

   Synonyms: habitus, ingenium, character

2. character, temperament, inclination, disposition

   Synonyms: mēns, indolēs, character

3. the natural world
   • Nātūra non facit saltūs

     Nature does not make leaps.

4. penis, organs of generation, the natural parts
   • Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated P.G. Walsh

     nec ūllum miserae refōrmātiōnis videō sōlācium, nisi quod mihi iam nequeuntī tenēre Photidem nātūra crēscēbat.

     The sole consolation I could see in this wretched transformation was the swelling of my penis - though now I could not embrace Photis.

5. (rare) birth

First-declension noun.

Inherited forms meaning "vagina":

• Franco-Provençal: [ɲyra], [ˈnɔːra], [ˈɲœːrə]
• Romansch: nadüra, nadira

Borrowings meaning "nature":

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nātūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 45

• “natura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “natura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "natura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to die a natural death: debitum naturae reddere (Nep. Reg. 1)
    
  • to devote oneself to the study of a natural science: se conferre ad naturae investigationem
    
  • innate goodness, kindness: naturae bonitas (Off. 1. 32. 118)
    
  • natural advantages: naturae bona
    
  • (ambiguous) creation; nature: rerum natura or simply natura
    
  • (ambiguous) climate: caelum or natura caeli
    
  • (ambiguous) the natural position of a place: natura loci
    
  • (ambiguous) natural gifts: natura et ingenium
    
  • (ambiguous) to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a natural propensity to vice: natura proclivem esse ad vitia
    
  • (ambiguous) character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores
    
  • (ambiguous) Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
    
  • (ambiguous) a town with a strong natural position: oppidum natura loci munitum (B. G. 1. 38)
    
• “natura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From nātūrō +‎ -ā.

nātūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nātūrō

Borrowed from Italian natura.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtuː.ra/

natura f (plural naturi)

1. nature
2. disposition
3. (euphemistic) genitals

Borrowed from Latin nātūra. Compare Old Spanish and Old Occitan natura.

natura f (plural naturas)

1. nature, essence (essential characteristics)

   Synonym: natureza

2. lineage

• Galician: natura

• Universo Cantigas - "natura"

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

natura f (nominative singular natura)

1. nature

• natural

Borrowed from Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtuɾa/

natura f (plural naturas)

1. nature, quality
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 7v:

     […] aquella tierra o son falladas otras piedras de muchas naturas ⁊ muy nobles de que fablaremos adelante en eſte libro […]

     […] that land where other stones with many and very noble natures are found, of which we will speak later in this book […]

   • Idem, f. 45r.

     De natura es fria et ſeca. ⁊ las ſus uertudes son contrarias a ſu natura. […]

     And it is cold and dry in nature, and its virtues are contrary to its nature; […]

2. (anatomy) vulva, female genitals
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 9r:

     Et aun a otra uertud muy eſtranna. que ſi la molierẽ ⁊ la amaſſaren cõ uino ⁊ fizierẽ della como bellota. ⁊ la puſieren en la natura dela mugier, uieda que no enprenne.

     And it has yet another very strange virtue; that if it were to be ground and mixed with wine and shaped like an acorn, and put inside the vulva of the woman, it would prevent her from not becoming pregnant.

• natural

• Ladino: natura (Latin spelling), נאטורה (Hebrew spelling)
• Spanish: natura

• natüra

• IPA^(key): /naˈtyra/

natura f (plural nature)

1. nature

• nátura (Przemyśl)
• matura (Podegrodzie)

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: na‧tu‧ra

natura f

1. nature (entirety of the natural world)

   Synonym: przyroda

2. nature (key characteristics of something or something's natural behavior)

   On jest dość miły z natury. ― He's quite nice by nature.

• natura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• natura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra. Compare Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese natura.

natura f (plural naturas)

1. (poetic) nature

   Synonym: natureza

• contranatura

Inherited from Latin nātūra.

• IPA^(key): /naˈtu.ɾa/, [naˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: na‧tù‧ra

natura f (plural naturi)

1. nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing

   Synonym: caràttiri

2. character, temperament, inclination, disposition

   Synonym: caràttiri

3. the natural world

   Synonym: munnu

4. (rare) birth

   Synonym: nàscita

Inherited from Old Spanish natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /naˈtuɾa/ [naˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: na‧tu‧ra

natura f (plural naturas)

1. nature

   Synonym: naturaleza

natura

1. inflection of naturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “natura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Latin in natura, used since the 17th century.

• Rhymes: -²ʉːra

natura c (uncountable)

1. in-kind (non-monetary payment), most often used in the adverbial postfix phrase in natura, sometimes i natura, and in compounds

   betalning i natura ― in-kind payment

• The form "i natura," which is only mentioned in SAOB, appears to be more common in practice when comparing "lön i/in natura" and "betalt i/in natura" on Google.
• Often (jocularly) of being paid in sexual favors, especially in the form "betalt i(n) natura."

• natura in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• natura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• natura in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)