innate

Innate entered English in the 1420s from Middle English innat(e), borrowed from Latin innātus, the perfect participle of innāscor, meaning 'to be born in' or 'grow up in' — itself a combination of in- ('in, at, on') and nāscor ('to be born').

The adjective came first, in the 1420s; nearly two centuries later, in 1602, English speakers turned it into a verb, showing how the language kept reshaping the same root for new grammatical work.

Innate shares its Latin root nāscor ('to be born') with natal and native, all three words carrying the idea of being born into something.