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nacimiento

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birth

∗ noun

nacimiento
masculine noun
1. birth (de niño, animal) ; sprouting (de planta) ; hatching (de ave, reptil)
  • de nacimiento -> from birth
2. source (de río)
3. origin, beginning (origen)
4. Nativity scene (belén)

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nacimiento [nah-the-me-en’-to]
noun
1. Birth, nativity. (m)
2. Growing of plants. (m)
3. Beginning of a thing (origen). (m)
4. Nativity, the place of birth. (m)
5. Rising of the plants. (m)
6. Nativity, the coming of our Lord into the world. (m)
7. Origin, descent, lineage. (m)
8. The origin or the physical or moral cause of a thing. (m)
  • Nacimiento de un río -> head of a river
  • De nacimiento -> from its birth

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nacimiento
1 (gen) birth; (Ornitología) etc hatching
de nacimiento: ciego de nacimiento blind from birth; born blind; un tonto de nacimiento a born fool; este defecto lo tiene de nacimiento he has had this defect since birth; he was born with this defect
nacimiento sin violencia painless childbirth
2 (estirpe) birth; family
de nacimiento noble of noble birth; of noble family
3 (manantial) spring; source
4 [del pelo] roots
plural
; (p)
Gruesas gotas de sudor le corrlan desde el nacimiento del pelo, empapandole las cejas y el mostacho
5 (origen) [de nación] birth; [de amistad] beginning; start
el partido tuvo su nacimiento en ... the party had its origins in ...; dar nacimiento a to give rise to
6 (Arte) (Religión) nativity (scene)

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