natal

See also: Natal and nätäl'

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəl

Etymology 1

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, 105 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.
• “natal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• alant

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Noël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.tal/

• audio

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Adjective

natal (feminine natale, masculine plural 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

Etymology

From Portuguese natal, from Latin natalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnat̪al]
• Hyphenation: na‧tal

Noun

natal (plural natal-natal, first-person possessive natalku, second-person possessive natalmu, third-person possessive natalnya)

1. birth.

Alternative forms

• Natal (“Christmas”)

Affixed terms

• natalan

 

Related terms

• natalitas

 

Further reading

• “natal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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.

Portuguese

Etymology

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
• 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):

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• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014