puerperium
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Noun
puerperium (plural puerperia)
- (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
- 1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84:
- As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.
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Translations
period of time following childbirth
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References
- “puerperium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.erˈpe.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.erˈpe.ri.um/,
Noun
puerperium n (genitive puerperiī or puerperī); second declension
- childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in
- newborn child, infant
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | puerperium | puerperia |
| Genitive | puerperiī puerperī1 |
puerperiōrum |
| Dative | puerperiō | puerperiīs |
| Accusative | puerperium | puerperia |
| Ablative | puerperiō | puerperiīs |
| Vocative | puerperium | puerperia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants
- → Italian: puerperio
- → English: puerperium
References
- “puerperium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press