natal

See also: Natal and nätäl'

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəl

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós

Proto-Italic *gnātos

Latin gnātus

Latin nātus

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nātālisbor.

English natal

Borrowed from Latin nātālis (“natal”), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of Noel.

Adjective

natal

1. Of or relating to birth.

   Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.

   • 1987, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:

     The constituents of the nation are a land and a people: the "natal", which is not necessarily innate, and the "popular," which is not necessarily pregiven.

Derived terms

• natal chart
• natal cleft
• natal day
• neonatal
• postnatal
• post-natal depression

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁- (0 c, 129 e)

Translations

Of or relating to birth

• Bulgarian: родилен (rodilen)
• Finnish: syntymä-
• French: natal (fr)
• Portuguese: natal (pt)
• Romanian: natal (ro), de naștere
• Spanish: natal (es)

Etymology 2

From Latin natis (“rump”), plural nates.

Adjective

natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)

1. Of or relating to the buttocks.

Related terms

• nates
• natiform

Translations

Of or relating to the buttocks

• Bulgarian: седалищен (sedališten)
• Esperanto: puga (eo)

Further reading

• “natal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “natal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• alant

Catalan

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós

Proto-Italic *gnātos

Latin gnātus

Latin nātus

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nātālisbor.

Catalan natal

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [naˈtal]

Adjective

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natals)

1. natal

Derived terms

• natalista
• natalitat

Related terms

• Natàlia
• natalici

Further reading

• “natal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

French

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós

Proto-Italic *gnātos

Latin gnātus

Latin nātus

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nātālisbor.

French natal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Noël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.tal/

• Audio:

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Adjective

natal (feminine natale, masculine plural natals or nataux, feminine plural natales)

1. native

   ville natale — home town

Further reading

• “natal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnatal/ [ˈna.t̪al]
• Rhymes: -atal
• Syllabification: na‧tal

Etymology 1

From Portuguese natal, from Latin nātālis.

Adjective

natal (comparative lebih natal, superlative paling natal)

1. natal (of or relating to birth)

Noun

natal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) birth (process of childbearing; beginning of life)

   Synonym: kelahiran

Etymology 2

Proper noun

natal

1. alternative letter-case form of Natal

Related terms

• natalitas

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin natalis.

Adjective

natal (neuter natalt, definite singular and plural natale, comparative natalare, indefinite superlative natalast, definite superlative natalaste)

1. pertaining to birth

References

• “natal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Inherited from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

Adjective

natal m (feminine singular natala, masculine plural natals, feminine plural natalas)

1. natal

Related terms

• natalista
• natalitat

Dialectal variants

• natau (Provençal)
• nadau (Gascon)

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 467.

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós

Proto-Italic *gnātos

Latin gnātus

Latin nātus

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nātālislbor.

Portuguese natal

Learned borrowing from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Natal.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /naˈtaw/ [naˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐˈtal/ [nɐˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐˈtal/ [nɐˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐˈta.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Homophone: Natal
• Hyphenation: na‧tal

Adjective

natal m or f (plural natais)

1. natal (of or relating to birth)

   Synonym: natalício

2. native (relating to the place where one was born)

Derived terms

• cidade natal
• estado natal
• país natal
• pré-natal
• terra natal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French natal.

Adjective

natal m or n (feminine singular natală, masculine plural natali, feminine and neuter plural natale)

1. natal

Declension

Declension of natal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	natal		natală		natali	natale
	definite	natalul		natala		natalii	natalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	natal		natale		natali	natale
	definite	natalului		natalei		natalilor	natalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātālis (“natal”). Compare also the doublet nadal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈtal/ [naˈt̪al]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: na‧tal

Adjective

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natales)

1. natal
2. native

   país natal ― native country

3. home

Derived terms

• carta natal
• ciruela natal

Related terms

• antenatal
• nacer (see for more related terms)
• nativo
• nato (see for more related terms)
• perinatal
• postnatal
• prenatal

Further reading

• “natal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10