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

• alant

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

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

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natals)

1. natal

• natalista
• natalitat

• Natàlia
• natalici

• “natal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Noël.

• IPA^(key): /na.tal/

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natal (feminine natale, masculine plural 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.

From Portuguese natal, from Latin natalis.

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

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

1. birth.

• Natal (“Christmas”)

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

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.

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014