native
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪtɪv/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈneɪtəv/
note: US, weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈneɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more native
form: most native
form: natiue
form: natyf
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.
Senses: examples: text: This is my native land.
text: English is not my native language.
text: I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares (My natiue English) now I must forgo.
ref: 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene iii, line 160:
text: Thy sentence…robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath.
ref: ibidem, line 173
text: They have a native language of their owne, but the Persian tongue is understood by most.
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, second edition, page 37:
text: Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound, / Content to breathe his native air / In his own ground.
ref: c. 1700, Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude, first quatrain:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: […] But to the Snake those accents sweet were known / His native tongue and hers; […]
ref: 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto I, stanza xix, lines 5–6:
text: Their habits, as we can see them transacted, are native.
ref: 1841, George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians, volume I, published 1844, page 6:
text: His name has been metamorphosed in Syria and Egypt into the more native-sounding Abulides.
ref: 1876, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Alfred Plummer, Hippolytus and Callistus, volume II, page 87:
text: They were dressed in their native costumes.
ref: 1877, Maria Margaret Grant, The Sun-Maid. A Romance., page viii:
glosses: Belonging to one by birth.
examples: text: What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
glosses: Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
examples: text: a native inhabitant
text: native oysters or strawberries
text: Many native artists studied abroad.
glosses: Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
examples: text: The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
raw_tags: of a species
examples: text: This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
text: The native integer size is sixteen bits.
text: cloud native, crypto native
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
raw_tags: of software
examples: text: native aluminium
text: native salt
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
examples: ref: 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:
glosses: Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
examples: text: native dust
text: Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades,
 Fit haunt of Gods?
ref: 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:
glosses: Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
examples: text: The head is not more native to the heart, […]
 Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
ref: 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]:
glosses: Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
Synonyms: sense: belonging to one by birth
word: inborn
word: innate
sense: born or grown in the region in which it is found
word: aboriginal
word: autochthonous
word: indigenous
word: autochthonal
word: endemic
word: inlandish
word: native
Hypernyms: word: earliest
word: original
word: primordial
word: primeval
Derived terms: AI-native
cloud-native
go native
nativar
native advertising
native bear
native-born
native bread
native bundle
native code
native companion
native daughter
native devil
native fuchsia
native gardenia
native ground
nativehen
native land
native language
native-language identification
native-like
nativelike
natively
native millet
native monkey
native myrtle
nativeness
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
nativism
nativist
nativize
near-native
non-native
nonnative
non-native speaker
non-native-speaker
seminative
unnative
Related terms: word: ancient
word: first
word: local
word: natural
word: primitive