Meanings
- not comparableBeing or happening before birth.
prenatal care
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Holonym: perinatal
prenatal vitamins
prenatal exposure
If you check the fitnessy corners of Instagram, prenatal workouts are intense and impressive AF.
2017 April 26, Sarah Jacoby, “How 11 Women Changed Their Workout Routines While Pregnant”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2023At 9 months, the researchers found deficits in motor function in infants with prenatal exposure to naled.
2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022Synonyms: antenatal
plural prenatals
- A person who is expecting to give birth.
- A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth.
She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBeing or happening before birth.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁tós
- Proto-Italic*gnātos
- Latingnātus
- Latinnātus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinnātālis
- Middle Englishnatal
- Englishnatal
- Englishprenatal
Translations
Bulgarian предшестващ раждането
- предшестващ раждането (predšestvašt raždaneto)being or happening before birth
Catalan prenatal
- prenatalbeing or happening before birth
Chinese Cantonese 產前 /产前
- 產前 /产前 (caan² cin⁴)being or happening before birth
Chinese Mandarin 產前 /产前
- 產前 /产前 (chǎnqián)being or happening before birth
Czech prenatální
- prenatálníbeing or happening before birth
Finnish syntymää edeltävä, prenataali
- syntymää edeltäväbeing or happening before birth
- prenataalibeing or happening before birth
- prenataalinenbeing or happening before birth
French prénatal
- prénatalbeing or happening before birth
German pränatal, präpartal
- pränatalbeing or happening before birth
- präpartalbeing or happening before birth
Italian prenatale, antenatale
- prenatalebeing or happening before birth
- antenatalebeing or happening before birth
Māori pirikōpū
- pirikōpūbeing or happening before birth
Polish prenatalny, przedporodowy
- prenatalnybeing or happening before birth
- przedporodowybeing or happening before birth
- przedurodzeniowybeing or happening before birth
Portuguese pré-natal
- pré-natalbeing or happening before birth
Romanian prenatal, de până la naștere
- prenatalbeing or happening before birth
- de până la nașterebeing or happening before birth
Spanish prenatal
- prenatalbeing or happening before birth
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Cite this entry
prenatal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenatal
“prenatal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenatal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prenatal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenatal.
Source: prenatal on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.