Etymology

puerperium

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Today it means: The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state. Full definition →

Latin puerperium
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  1. Latin · borrowed frompuerperium“childbed, childbirth”
  2. English todaypuerperium

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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