How do you pronounce native?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈneɪtɪv/.

Where does native come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

native

/ˈneɪtɪv/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: na-tive
IPA: /ˈneɪtɪv/

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Meaning

adj

Belonging to one by birth or ancestry.

adj

Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.

adj

Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).

adj

Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

adj

Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.

adj

Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

adj

Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.

adj

Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

Example Sentences

"This is my native land."
"English is not my native language."
"I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…"
"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."
"The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares (My natiue English) now I must forgo."
"Thy sentence…robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive. Compare also inborn.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *ǵenh₁-, natif, nātīvus

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈneɪtɪv/

Usage

Inflected Forms

more native (comparative) most native (superlative) natiue (alternative, obsolete) natyf (alternative, obsolete) natives (plural)

Derived Forms

nativar nativehen nativelike natively nativeness nativism nativist nativize nonnative seminative unnative

Phrases

AI-native cloud-native go native native advertising native bear native-born native bread native bundle

Frequently Paired Words

ancient first local natural primitive native cat nativisation nativity

Synonyms

inborn innate aboriginal autochthonous indigenous autochthonal endemic inlandish native homeling

Antonyms

exotic foreign naturalized fremd allochthonous

Rhymes With

creative non-native vegetative educative probative nonnative dative uncreative stative optative rotative elative