natal

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəl

From Middle English natal, natale (“native, one’s own; inherited; presiding over birthdays or births”), from Classical Latin nātālis (“natal”), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.^[1][2] Doublet of Natal and 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 Classical Latin natis (“rump”) +‎ -al.^[3]

natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)

1. (medicine, zoology) Of or relating to the buttocks.

• natal cleft

• 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]

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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.

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

1. natal

• natalista
• natalitat

• natau (Provençal)
• nadau (Gascon)

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025

Learned borrowing from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Natal.

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• 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