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na⋅tal

  [neyt-l]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a person's birth: celebrating one's natal day.
2. presiding over or affecting a person at birth: natal influences.
3. (of places) native: nostalgia for one's natal town.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L nātālis of, belonging to one's birth, natal, equiv. to nāt(us) an offspring (var. of gnātus, ptp. of nāscī to be born) + -ālis -al 1
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Na⋅tal

  [nuh-tal, -tahl; for 2 also Port. nuh-tawl]
–noun
1. a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 4,236,700; 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
2. a seaport in E Brazil. 250,787.
Related forms:
Na⋅tal⋅i⋅an, adjective, noun

Ri⋅o Gran⋅de do Nor⋅te

  [ree-oo grahn-di doo nawr-ti]
–noun
a state in E Brazil. 1,933,131; 20,464 sq. mi. (53,000 sq. km). Capital: Natal.
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na·tal   (nāt'l)   
adj.  

  1. Of, relating to, or accompanying birth: natal injuries.

  2. Of or associated with the time or place of one's birth: a natal star.


[Middle English, from Latin nātālis, from nātus, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
Na·tal   (nə-tāl', -täl')   

  1. A region of southeast Africa on the Indian Ocean. Sighted by Vasco da Gama on Christmas Day 1497 and named Terra Natalis, it was settled by British traders in 1823 and by the Boers after 1836. Annexed by the British to Cape Colony in 1843, Natal became a separate colony after 1856 and a founding province of South Africa in 1910.

  2. A city of northeast Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean north of Recife. Founded in the late 1590s, it grew rapidly in World War II as a base for flights connecting with Africa. Population: 778,000.

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Word Origin & History

natal 
c.1374, from L. natalis "pertaining to birth or origin," from natus, pp. of nasci "to be born" (see genus).
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: na·tal
Pronunciation: 'nAt-&l
Function: adjective
: of or relating to birth natal death rate—Journal of the American Medical Association>
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Medical Dictionary

natal na·tal (nāt'l)
adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or accompanying birth.

  2. Of or relating to the buttocks.

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