myEtymology.com: French etymology of nativity

Etymology of the French word nativity

the Old French word nativity

derived from the Latin word nativitas (birth; nativity)

derived from the Classical Latin word nativus (original; innate; natural)

derived from the Latin word natus (birth; age, years; born, arisen; made; son; child; children)

derived from the Latin word nasci (be born, begotten, formed; be produced spontaneously, come into existence, being)

derived from the Latin word nascere

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *genə-

Word found in Old French