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prenatally en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /pɹiːˈneɪtəli/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English prenatal Middle English -ly English -ly English prenatally From prenatal + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before birth.
    • It has been estimated that about two out of three fetuses with prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome are aborted in the United States. 2024 December 1, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Does Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome Amount to Eugenics?”, in The New York Times:
    • Tall, muscular, golden-skinned, he ranted bitterly about the injustice done to him pre-natally. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 62:

Synonyms

in utero

Translations (4)

pl przedporodowo (before birth) · pl przedurodzeniowo (before birth) · pl prenatalnie (before birth) · pt pré-natalmente (before birth)