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Before birth is an English equivalent of 'ante natal'. In the word by word translation, the preposition 'ante' means 'before'. The adjective 'natalis' means 'of or relating to birth'. Over time, the Latin ablative case ending '-is' was dropped. So the phrase came to be known as 'ante natal'.

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