nacimiento

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birth

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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
sustantivo:masculino
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; (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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