accoucheur

The story

1. Latin · derived fromcollocō“to place, put, set in order, assign”
2. Old French · derived fromculcher“to lie”
3. French · borrowed fromaccoucheur
4. English todayaccoucheur

Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement.