English Explanatory Dictionary

natal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to birth.
adj
  1. Of or relating to the buttocks.
name
  1. A former British colony in modern South Africa, existing from 1843 to 1910.
  2. A former province of South Africa, reorganized in 1994 into the modern province of KwaZulu-Natal.
  3. A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Pronunciation

/ˈneɪtəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-natal.wav

Word forms

natal more natal most natal

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós Proto-Italic *gnātos Latin gnātus Latin nātus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nātālisbor. Middle English natal English natal 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 (“to be born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of Natal and Noel.

Synonyms

natal

Related words

innate nascent bodily nates natiform

Derived words

antinatal antinatalism antinatalist circumnatal conatal connatal intranatal natal chart natal day natal fig natalism natalist natality natally neonatal paranatal perinatal postnatal postnatal depression prenatal pronatal pronatalism pronatalist transnatal natal cleft Natal brown Natalian
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