Standard Lemma guide

congenital

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kənˈdʒɛnɪt(ə)l/
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  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N JH EH1 N AH0 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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adj

Meaning 1

Of a trait or a disease, present since birth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: congenite, genetous, connate, connatural, congenital, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenite, innate, native, natural, to the manner born, unlearned, unlearnt

Antonyms: acquired

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: inborn, innate

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin genitus Latin congenitus English -al English congenital From Latin congenitus + -al, equivalent to con- + genital.

Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: вроден (vroden) — present since birth
  • Bulgarian: по рождение (po roždenie) — present since birth
  • Catalan: congènit — present since birth
  • Chinese Mandarin: 先天 (xiāntiān) — present since birth
  • Czech: vrozený — present since birth
  • Danish: medfødt — present since birth
  • Dutch: aangeboren — present since birth
  • Dutch: congenitaal — present since birth
  • Esperanto: denaska — present since birth
  • Faroese: viðføddur — present since birth
  • Finnish: synnynnäinen — present since birth
  • French: congénital — present since birth
  • Galician: conxénito — present since birth
  • German: angeboren — present since birth
  • German: kongenital — present since birth
  • Greek: συγγενής (syngenís) — present since birth
  • Ancient Greek: συγγενικός (sungenikós) — present since birth
  • Haitian Creole: konjenital — present since birth
  • Hebrew: מולד (mulad) — present since birth
  • Hindi: जन्मजात (janmajāt) — present since birth
  • Hungarian: veleszületett — present since birth
  • Icelandic: meðfæddur — present since birth
  • Ido: kunnaskinta — present since birth
  • Indonesian: kongenital — present since birth
  • Italian: congenito — present since birth
  • Japanese: 先天的 (sententeki) — present since birth
  • Central Kurdish: زکماک (zikmak) — present since birth
  • Lithuanian: įgimtas — present since birth
  • Manx: dooghyssagh — present since birth
  • Norwegian Bokmål: medfødt — present since birth
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: medfødd — present since birth
  • Polish: wrodzony — present since birth
  • Portuguese: congênito — present since birth
  • Portuguese: congénito — present since birth
  • Russian: врождённый (vroždjónnyj) — present since birth
  • Russian: конгенита́льный (kongenitálʹnyj) — present since birth
  • Spanish: congénito — present since birth
  • Swedish: medfödd — present since birth
  • Swedish: kongenital — present since birth
  • Telugu: పుట్టు (puṭṭu) — present since birth
  • Turkish: konjenital — present since birth
  • Turkish: doğumsal — present since birth
  • Ukrainian: вроджений (vrodženyj) — present since birth
Real reading context

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