natalis
Latin
Etymology
From nātus + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /naːˈtaː.lis/, [näːˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /naˈta.lis/, [näˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
nātālis (neuter nātāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- 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
- → Portuguese: natal
- → Spanish: natal
Noun
nātālis m (genitive nātālis); third declension
- birthday
- 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
- French: Noël, noël
- → Middle English: Nowel, Noel
- Friulian: Nadâl
- Galician: Nadal, nadal
- Italian: Natale
- Occitan: nadal
- Piedmontese: Natal
- Portuguese: Natal
- Romansch: Nadal
- Sardinian: nadabi, nadale, nadali, nedali, natale
- Spanish: nadal
- Venetian: Nadal
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