/nayt"l/ , adj.
1. of or pertaining to a person's birth: celebrating one's natal day.
2. presiding over or affecting a person at birth: natal influences.
3. (of places) native: nostalgia for one's natal town.
[ 1350-1400; ME natalis of, belonging to one's birth, natal, equiv. to nat ( us ) an offspring (var. of gnatus, ptp. of nasci to be born) + -alis -AL 1 ]