puerperium

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Etymology

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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).

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puerperium (plural puerperia)

  1. (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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Latin

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Etymology

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From puerpera (woman in labor or childbed) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix).

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Noun

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puerperium n (genitive puerperiī or puerperī); second declension

  1. childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in
  2. newborn child, infant

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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

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  • → Italian: puerperio
  • English: puerperium

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