naï-f, -ve, adj., naïve, native, artless, ingenuous; plain, unaffected, natural; candid; simple. Grâce —ve; native grace. Réponse —ve; ingenuous answer.
naïf, n.m., (lit., paint.) nature without art.
nain (nin), -e (nè-n), n. and adj., dwarf; dwarfish. — jaune; Pope Joan (card game). Arbres —s; dwarf trees. Œuf —; addled egg.
naïre, n.m., Indian chief (Malabar).
naissain, n.m., oyster-spat.
naissance, n.f., birth; nativity; descent, extraction; beginning, dawn, rise. Le lieu de sa —; one’s birth-place. Jour de —, anniversaire de la —; birth-day. Être de haute —; to be high-born. Prendre — de; to be born; to originate in. Donner — à; to give rise to. La — de la poésie; the dawn of poetry.
naissant, -e, adj., newly-born; dawning; budding, rising; infant, in its infancy; beginning, growing, nascent. Une fortune —e; a rising fortune.
naître (naissant, né), v.n., to be born, to come into the world; to originate, to arise; to rise, to dawn, to spring up. Il est né poète; he was born a poet. Cela peut faire — des soupçons; that may give rise to suspicion. Faire —; to call into existence; to create, to produce, to excite, to suggest. Je l’ai vu —; I knew him as a child.
naïvement (-iv-mān), adv., ingenuously, plainly, candidly, naïvely, artlessly.
naïveté (-iv-té), n.f., native simplicity, ingenuousness, artlessness; simple thing; naïveté.