natalis

Latin

Etymology

From nātus +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naːˈtaː.lis/, [näːˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /naˈta.lis/, [näˈt̪äːlis]

Adjective

nātālis (neuter nātāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. natal (of one's birth)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	nātālis	nātāle		nātālēs	nātālia
Genitive	nātālis			nātālium
Dative	nātālī			nātālibus
Accusative	nātālem	nātāle		nātālēs nātālīs	nātālia
Ablative	nātālī			nātālibus
Vocative	nātālis	nātāle		nātālēs	nātālia

Descendants

• → English: natal
• → French: natal
• Italian: natale
• → Piedmontese: natal
• → Romanian: natal
• → Portuguese: natal
• → Spanish: natal

Noun

nātālis m (genitive nātālis); third declension

1. birthday
2. anniversary

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nātālis	nātālēs
Genitive	nātālis	nātālium
Dative	nātālī	nātālibus
Accusative	nātālem	nātālēs nātālīs
Ablative	nātāle nātālī	nātālibus
Vocative	nātālis	nātālēs

Descendants

• Catalan: Nadal, nadal
• Old French: Noel
  • → Middle English: Nowel, Noel
    • English: Noel, Noël, noel, noël, nowel, nowell
  • Middle French: Noël
    • French: Noël, noël
      • Swedish: Noel
      • Turkish: Noel
• Friulian: Nadâl
• Italian: Natale
• Occitan: nadal
• Piedmontese: Natal
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Natal
  • Galician: Nadal
  • Portuguese: Natal (see there for further descendants)
• Romansch: Nadal
• Sardinian: nadabi, nadale, nadali, nedali, natale
• Spanish: nadal
• Venetian: Nadal
• Yiddish: ניטל (nitl)

References

• “natalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “natalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• natalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• natalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

• lanista