prenatal

From pre- + natal.

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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^[1], 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^[2], 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.

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.

• parental, paternal

Borrowed from English prenatal.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /preˈnatal/ [preˈna.t̪al]
• Rhymes: -atal
• Syllabification: pre‧na‧tal

prenatal (comparative lebih prenatal, superlative paling prenatal)

1. prenatal

   Synonyms: pralahir, pranatal

• “prenatal”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From pre- +‎ natal.

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

1. prenatal

• “prenatal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French prénatal.

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

1. prenatal

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

prenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural prenatales)

1. prenatal

   Synonym: antenatal

• “prenatal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025