natal

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəl

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

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.

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

natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)

1. Of or relating to the buttocks.

• nates
• natiform

• “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.

• alant

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

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

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natals)

1. natal

• natalista
• natalitat

• Natàlia
• natalici

• “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], April 2007

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Noël.

• IPA^(key): /na.tal/

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

1. native

   ville natale — home town

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

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

From Portuguese natal, from Latin nātālis.

natal (comparative lebih natal, superlative paling natal)

1. natal (of or relating to birth)

natal (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: kelahiran

natal

1. alternative letter-case form of Natal

From Latin natalis.

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

1. pertaining to birth

• “natal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Inherited from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

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

• natalista
• natalitat

• natau (Provençal)
• nadau (Gascon)

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

Learned borrowing from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Natal.

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

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)

Borrowed from French natal.

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

1. natal

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

• IPA^(key): /naˈtal/ [naˈt̪al]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: na‧tal

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natales)

1. natal
2. native

   país natal ― native country

3. home

• “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], 10 December 2024