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- noun The
right ofcitizenship in anation acquired by being born to aparent or parents with citizenship in that nation.
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- noun the principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his natural parents
Etymologies
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From Latin ius ("law") + sanguinis ("of blood").
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