naissance (Fr.), birth.

natale solum (L.), natal soil.

naturam expellas furcâ, tamen usque recurret (L.), though you drive out nature with a pitchfork [i.e. with violence], yet will she always return.

Neapolis (L.), Naples.

nec cupias, nec metuas (L.), neither desire nor fear.

ne cede malis (L.), yield not to misfortune.

nécessaire (Fr.), a dressing-case, work-box.

necessitas non habet legem (L.), necessity has, or knows, no law.

nec scire fas est omnia (L.), it is not permitted to know all things.

née (Fr.), born So-and-so: her maiden name being So-and-so, as Madame de Staël, née Necker.