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- Latin · borrowed frompuerpera“woman in labor or childbed”
- English todaypuerpera
Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.