natal
adjEtymology From Classical Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.
- Derived terms
- natal cleft
natal
adj/ˈneɪtəl/
Etymology 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 nada, Natal, née, and Noel.
1
Of or relating to birth.
- Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.
- 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.1987, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:
- Synonyms
- natal
- Derived terms
- 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