nation

nascor (Latin)

I am a number of years old. I am born, begotten. I arise, proceed. I grow, spring forth.

*gnātiō (Proto-Italic)

Family.

nata (Latin)

Born (female). Daughter.

nationis (Latin)

nasion (Old French)

nacioun (Middle English)

nation (English)

(chiefly, historical) An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.. (international, _, legal) A sovereign state.. (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.