# natal
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈneɪtəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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
* 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

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Adjective

natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)
* Of or relating to the buttocks.

##### Related terms

* nates
* natiform

##### Translations
### 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

Borrowed from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Nadal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [nəˈtal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [naˈtal]

### Adjective

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natals)
* 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: /na.tal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

natal (feminine natale, masculine plural nataux, feminine plural natales)
* 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: /ˈnatal/ [ˈna.t̪al]
* Rhymes: -atal
* Syllabification: na‧tal

### Etymology 1

Perhaps from Portuguese natal, from Latin nātālis.

#### Adjective

natal
* natal (of or relating to birth)

#### Noun

natal (uncountable)
* (obsolete) birth (process of childbearing; beginning of life)
    Synonym: kelahiran

### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

natal
* 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)
* 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)
* 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

Learned borrowing from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Natal.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /naˈtaw/ [naˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /nɐˈtal/ [nɐˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /nɐˈtal/ [nɐˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /nɐˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Homophone: Natal
* Hyphenation: na‧tal

### Adjective

natal m or f (plural natais)
* natal (of or relating to birth)
    Synonym: natalício
* 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)
* natal

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naˈtal/ [naˈt̪al]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: na‧tal

### Adjective

natal m or f (masculine and feminine plural natales)
* natal
* native
    país natal ― native country
* 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