natal

Of or relating to birth.

Adjective biology, medicine

Of or relating to the buttocks.

Origin

From Classical Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.

Adjective Entry 2

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,...

Origin

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 nada, Natal, née, and Noel.