The story
- Latin · derived fromante“before”
- English todayantenatal
From Latin ante (“before”) + nātālis (“natal”), from nāscor (“to be born”), equivalent to ante- + natal.
Words from the same roots
Latinante all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.