nature

• n.自然；性質；種類
• n. （自然）人の名前；（仏語）生い立ち

native、born、indigenousから。自然に由来する

nature

nature: [13] Etymologically, someone’s nature is the qualities they were ‘born’ with. The word comes via Old French nature from Latin nātūra, a derivative of the verb nāscī ‘be born’ (source of English nation, native, etc). This originally meant simply ‘birth’, but by classical times it had developed to the ‘innate properties or qualities of something or someone’, and hence to the ‘inherent course of things’, the ‘way things are in the world’. The common English sense ‘physical world’ (as in nature study) first began to emerge in the 16th century.
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nature (n.)

late 13c., "restorative powers of the body, bodily processes; powers of growth;" from Old French nature "nature, being, principle of life; character, essence," from Latin natura "course of things; natural character, constitution, quality; the universe," literally "birth," from natus "born," past participle of nasci "to be born," from PIE *gene- "to give birth, beget" (see genus).

From late 14c. as "creation, the universe;" also "heredity, birth, hereditary circumstance; essential qualities, innate disposition" (as in human nature); "nature personified, Mother Nature." Specifically as "material world beyond human civilization or society" from 1660s. Nature and nurture have been contrasted since 1874.

Nature should be avoided in such vague expressions as 'a lover of nature,' 'poems about nature.' Unless more specific statements follow, the reader cannot tell whether the poems have to do with natural scenery, rural life, the sunset, the untouched wilderness, or the habits of squirrels." [Strunk & White, "The Elements of Style," 3rd ed., 1979]

1. The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.

というポリマーの性質は現在、商業秘密である。

2.The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite variety.

大自然の最も驚くべきことは、その無限の多様性である。

3.Rowe does a very clever riff on the nature of prejudice.

ロは偏見の本質について鋭い話をした。

4.The advances in communications altered the nature of information processing.

通信技術の進歩により、情報処理が質的に変化した。

5.Her description of the nature and action of poisons is amazingly accurate.

彼の毒薬の性質と作用に対する記述は驚くほど正確である。