# native
## English
### Alternative forms

* natiue, natyf (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈneɪtɪv/
* (US)
** (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈneɪtəv/
** (US, weak vowel distinction) IPA: /ˈneɪtɪv/
*** Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪtɪv
* Hyphenation: na‧tive

### Adjective

native (comparative more native, superlative most native)
* Belonging to one by birth.
    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.
** 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto I, stanza xix, lines 5–6:[…] But to the Snake those accents sweet were known / His native tongue and hers; […]
** 1841, George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians, volume I, published 1844, page 6:Their habits, as we can see them transacted, are native.
** 1876, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Alfred Plummer, Hippolytus and Callistus, volume II, page 87:His name has been metamorphosed in Syria and Egypt into the more native-sounding Abulides.
** 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.
    What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
* 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.
    a native inhabitant
    native oysters or strawberries
    Many native artists studied abroad.
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* (belonging to one by birth): inborn, innate; See also Thesaurus:innate
* (born or grown in the region in which it is found): aboriginal, autochthonous, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:native

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “born or grown in the region in which it is found”): foreign, naturalized, fremd; See also Thesaurus:foreign

#### Derived terms

* cloud-native
* go native
* native advertising
* native bear
* native-born
* native bread
* native code
* native companion
* native daughter
* native devil
* native fuchsia
* native gardenia
* native ground
* native land
* native language
* native-language identification
* native-like
* native millet
* native monkey
* native myrtle
* native resolution
* native soil
* native son
* native speaker
* native-speaker
* native-speakerism
* native-speaking
* native species
* native steel
* native support
* native tiger
* native title
* native tobacco
* native tongue
* native wit
* nonnative
* non-native
* non-native speaker
* non-native-speaker

#### Translations

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### 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.
* Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.

#### Usage notes

* In North America, native/Native came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as Indian began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include Native American, Native Canadian, and American Indian. In Canada, the terms include Inuit and Metis and the adjectives First Nation/First Nations.

#### Synonyms

* homeling (uncommon, obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* digital native
* the natives are restless

#### Translations
### See also

* native cat
* nativisation
* nativity
* nativization

### 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.
* "native" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 215.
* “native”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na.tiv/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: natives

### Adjective

native
* feminine singular of natif

### Anagrams

* enviât, vanité, veinât, venait

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naˈti.ve/
* Rhymes: -ive
* Hyphenation: na‧tì‧ve

### Adjective

native
* feminine plural of nativo

### Noun

native f pl
* plural of nativa

### Anagrams

* Aventi, aventi, avinte, evinta, nevati, vanite, venati, viante, vinate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /naːˈtiː.u̯e/, [näːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /naˈti.ve/, [näˈt̪iːve]

### Adjective

nātīve
* vocative masculine singular of nātīvus

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [naˈti.ve]

### Adjective

native
* feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of nativ