prenatal

See also: prénatal and pré-natal

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ natal.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

prenatal (not comparable)

1. Being or happening before birth.

   Synonym: antenatal

   Coordinate terms: natal, postnatal

   Holonym: perinatal

   prenatal care;   prenatal vitamins;   prenatal exposure

   • 2017 April 26, Sarah Jacoby, “How 11 Women Changed Their Workout Routines While Pregnant”, in Refinery29‎, archived from the original on 25 February 2023:

     If you check the fitnessy corners of Instagram, prenatal workouts are intense and impressive AF.

   • 2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 6 October 2022:

     At 9 months, the researchers found deficits in motor function in infants with prenatal exposure to naled.

Translations

being or happening before birth

Albanian: paralindje (sq) Bulgarian: предшестващ раждането (predšestvašt raždaneto) Catalan: prenatal (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 產前 / 产前 (caan2 cin4) Hakka: 產前 / 产前 (sán-chhièn) Hokkien: 產前 / 产前 (sán-chêng) Mandarin: 產前 / 产前 (zh) (chǎnqián) Czech: prenatální (cs) Finnish: syntymää edeltävä, prenataali, prenataalinen (fi) French: prénatal (fr) Georgian: დაბადებამდელი (dabadebamdeli), პრენატალური (ṗrenaṭaluri), ანტენატალური (anṭenaṭaluri) German: pränatal (de), präpartal (de) Italian: prenatale, antenatale Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pêşzayînê f Maori: pirikōpū Polish: prenatalny (pl), przedporodowy (pl) m, przedurodzeniowy Portuguese: pré-natal (pt) Romanian: prenatal (ro), de până la naștere Spanish: prenatal

See also

• embryonal, embryonic
• fetal
• intrauterine

Noun

prenatal (plural prenatals)

1. A person who is expecting to give birth.
2. A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth.

   She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.

Anagrams

• parental, paternal

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From pre- +‎ natal.

Adjective

prenatal (neuter prenatalt, definite singular and plural prenatale, comparative prenatalare, indefinite superlative prenatalast, definite superlative prenatalaste)

1. prenatal

References

• “prenatal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prénatal.

Adjective

prenatal m or n (feminine singular prenatală, masculine plural prenatali, feminine and neuter plural prenatale)

1. prenatal

Declension

Declension of prenatal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	prenatal		prenatală		prenatali	prenatale
	definite	prenatalul		prenatala		prenatalii	prenatalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	prenatal		prenatale		prenatali	prenatale
	definite	prenatalului		prenatalei		prenatalilor	prenatalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾenaˈtal/ [pɾe.naˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pre‧na‧tal

Adjective

prenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural prenatales)

1. prenatal

   Synonym: antenatal

Related terms

• nacer (see for more related terms)
• natal
• nato (see for more related terms)
• neonatal
• perinatal
• postnatal
• prenatalmente

Further reading

• “prenatal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024