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Natal means “to do with birth, or with the time and place someone is born.” It is not a daily-life word on its own. Doctors, midwives, and scientists use it, and you will meet it far more often inside longer words than standing alone: care is care before the baby is born, is after, is about a newborn.
Natal means "to do with birth, or with the time and place someone is born."natal 的意思是「跟出生有關，或跟一個人出生的時間、地點有關」。 It is not a daily-life word on its own它單獨用的話不算日常生活字。 Doctors, midwives, and scientists use it醫生、助產士和科學家會用它， and you will meet it far more often inside longer words than standing alone你比較常在長一點的字裡遇到它，而不是它自己單獨出現： prenatal care is care before the baby is born, postnatal is after, neonatal is about a newbornprenatal care 是產前照護，postnatal 是產後，neonatal 則是跟新生兒有關。
A natal village or natal city is simply the place you were born; most people would just say hometown or “the city I was born in.” Natal day for birthday is old-fashioned and a bit literary. The word sounds technical and a little stiff if you drop it into ordinary talk — though actually the idea is simple: born.
A natal village or natal city is simply the place you were borna natal village 或 natal city 就只是你出生的地方， most people would just say hometown or "the city I was born in."大部分人會直接說 hometown，或「我出生的那個城市」。 Natal day for birthday is old-fashioned and a bit literary用 natal day 來說生日則是老派、有點文學腔的說法。 The word sounds technical and a little stiff if you drop it into ordinary talk如果把這個字丟進日常對話裡，聽起來會很技術性、有點生硬， though actually the idea is simple: born不過其實它的概念很簡單，就是「出生」。
Do not hear nation inside it and think “of the country.” That is a different word now, even though both go back, far back, to a Latin word for being born.
Do not hear nation inside it and think "of the country."不要因為裡面藏著 nation 這個字，就以為意思是「跟國家有關」。 That is a different word now那現在是不同的字了， even though both go back, far back, to a Latin word for being born雖然兩個字很久以前都能追溯到同一個表示「出生」的拉丁字。
There is also a rare medical natal that has to do with the ; that is not this sense.
There is also a rare medical natal that has to do with the buttocks另外還有一個少見的醫學用法 natal，跟臀部有關， that is not this sense但那不是這裡講的這個意思。
組成From Middle English natal, from Latin nātālis (“of birth; of a birthday”), from nātus (“born”), the past form of nāscor (“to be born”). The ending is Latin -ālis, the same piece that gives English -al (“belonging to”). Doublet of née.
同家族的字
- prenatalpre- + natal: before birth
- postnatalpost- + natal: after birth
- neonatalneo- + natal: of a newborn baby
- nativesame Latin natus, “born”
- nativitysame Latin root: a birth, especially the birth of Christ
- néeFrench form of the same Latin natus, “born”; used before a married woman’s original family name
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Natalname
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A former British colony in modern South Africa, existing from 1843 to 1910.
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A former province of South Africa, reorganized in 1994 into the modern province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
nataladj詞源 1/ˈneɪtəl/
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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.
nataladj詞源 2/ˈneɪtəl/
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biologymedicinenatural-sciencesOf or relating to the buttocks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。