different between parturient vs puerpera

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parturi?ns, present participle of parturi? (“I am in labour”).

Adjective

parturient (comparative more parturient, superlative most parturient)

1. In labour, about to give birth, or having recently given birth.
2. (by extension) About to create a new product, or float a new idea.
3. Of, related to, or caused by childbirth
4. (of a substance) Facilitating labour.

Synonyms

• (relating to childbirth): parturious (obsolete)

Noun

parturient (plural parturients)

1. One who is in labour, who is about to give birth, or who has recently given birth.
2. A substance that facilitates labour.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:parturient.

Latin

Verb

parturient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of parturi?

English

Etymology

From Latin puerpera

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pju????(?)p???/

Noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

1. (obstetrics) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
   • 1984, Erhard Haus, Hugh F. Kabat, Chronobiology 1982-1983, S Karger Ag

     A statistically significant circadian rhythm for urine volume was revealed in 6 of 10 pregnant women in the first trimester and in 6 of 9 puerperas on the 7th puerperal day.
2. (rare) A woman who has recently given birth.
   • 1860, Ignaz Semmelweis, quoted in Henry E. Brady, David Collier, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ?ISBN, page 224

     I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka's disease and the disease from which I saw so many puerperae die, are identical, then in the puerperae it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka.

Translations

Italian

Noun

puerpera f (plural puerpere)

1. A woman who has just given birth

Related terms

• puerperio

Latin

Etymology 1

From puer (“boy, child”) + pari? (“bear, give birth”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra/, [pu??rp??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra/, [pu??rp???]

Noun

puerpera f (genitive puerperae); first declension

1. a woman in labor or in childbed, a lying-in woman

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• puerperium
• puerperus

Descendants

• Translingual: Thiodina puerpera

References

• puerpera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• puerpera: (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra/, [pu??rp??ä]
• puerpera: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra/, [pu??rp???]
• puerper?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra?/, [pu??rp??ä?]
• puerper?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu?er.pe.ra/, [pu??rp???]

Adjective

puerpera

1. nominative feminine singular of puerperus
2. vocative feminine singular of puerperus
3. nominative neuter plural of puerperus
4. accusative neuter plural of puerperus
5. vocative neuter plural of puerperus

Adjective

puerper?

1. ablative feminine singular of puerperus