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.
   • 2017 April 26, Sarah Jacoby, “How 11 Women Changed Their Workout Routines While Pregnant”, in Refinery29‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 February 2023:

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

Synonyms

• antenatal

Related terms

• natal
• perinatal
• postnatal

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

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

		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], 2024 December 10