NATURAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From nāscor (“be born”) + -tūra.

名詞

nātūra f (genitive nātūrae); first declension

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

   Synonyms: habitus, ingenium, charactēr

2. character, temperament, inclination, disposition

   Synonyms: mēns, indolēs, charactēr

3. nature, the natural world
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 2.4:

     Quibus enim nihil est in ipsīs opīs ad bene beātēque vīvendum, eīs omnis aetās gravis est; quī autem omnia bona ā sē ipsī petunt, eīs nihil malum potest vidērī quod nātūrae necessitās adferat.

     For those who possess no internal resources for a good and happy life, every stage of existence is a burden. However, for those who seek all blessings from within themselves, nothing that the necessity of nature brings can appear to be an evil.

   • 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

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

Inherited forms meaning "vagina":

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

Borrowings meaning "nature":

参照

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

Further reading

• “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, 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, 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

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

nātūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nātūrō