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.