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natis

natis

buttock

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1. natis — de Vaan

natis 'buttock' [f. i] (Pl>) Derivatives: mostly pL nates, -htm. Pit. *(g/s)nati~. PIE *nHt-? IE cognates: Gr. νώτον [a] 'back; wide surface'. The connection between natis and Gr. νώτον, two isolated words, is certainly possible from the semantic side, but remains formally uncertain. Schrijver reconstructs a root noun *n(e)h3t- from which Latin would have derived an /-stem *nh3t-i- and Greek an o-stem *ne/oh3t-o-. … — [de Vaan, s.v. natis, p. 416]

2. nătis — Lewis & Short

nătis, is, more freq. in the nă-tes, ium, f.akin to Gr. nw=ton, back; cf. no/sfi,

plur.,
I the rump, the buttocks.
(a) Sing.: diffissā nate, Hor. S. 1, 8, 46; Auct. Priap. 77, 11; 83, 23: quod ejus natis fulmine icta erat, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. pullus, p. 244 and 245 Müll.—
(b) Plur.: nates pervellit, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 66: soleā pulsare nates, Juv. 6, 611; Mart. 14, 18, 2; with clunes, id. 3, 53, 3.—Of the rump of animals: nates turturum donare alicui, Mart. 3, 82, 21.

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  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. natis (scan p. 416; entry #1125).
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. natis (scan p. 455; entry #7316).

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