different between puerperium vs puerpera

English

Etymology

From Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), noun form of puerperus (“of a woman in labour”), adjectival form of puerpera (“a woman in her childbed”), from puer (“boy”) + pari? (“I bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu?.??pi?.?i.?m/, /?pu?.??pi?.?i.?m/

Noun

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, p84

     As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

Related terms

• antepartum
• parous
• postpartum
• puerperal

Translations

Anagrams

• pure-impure

Latin

Etymology

puerpera +? -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu.er?pe.ri.um/, [pu?r?p??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.er?pe.ri.um/, [pu?r?p???ium]

Noun

puerperium n (genitive puerperi? or puerper?); second declension

1. childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• puer

References

• puerperium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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