parturition
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Etymology edit
From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).
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Noun edit
parturition (countable and uncountable, plural parturitions)
- The act of giving birth; childbirth.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 33:
- So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14:
- femoules emaciated by parturition
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act of giving birth
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French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin parturitiō.
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Noun edit
parturition f (plural parturitions)
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Further reading edit
- “parturition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.