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- Regno Unito//bɔːn//
- Stati Uniti//boɹn//
- Stati Uniti/[bo̞ɹn]/
- //bɔːɹn//
- //bɔːn//
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
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Anche una forma di bearpast participle of bear; given birth to.
Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
Born in 1937, I spent my early childhood in Spain.
a Canadian-born singer-songwriter
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Anche una forma di bear in other sensesobsoletopast participle of bear in other senses.
In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der. Proto-Germanic *buranaz Proto-West Germanic *boran Old English boren, ġeboren Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne English born From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).
aggettivo
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Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
a born leader
I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.
I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
sostantivo
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Variante di burnAlternative spelling of burn (a stream)
Etimologia
Dialectal variant of burn.
verbo
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Variante di burnAlternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
Forme
- plurale
- borns
- passato
- bornt
- participio passato
- bornt
- participio presente
- bornin
- 3ª persona singolare
- borns
born · Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
Born · A surname from English.borne · carried, supported.Borne · A surname.