enfantement
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French enfantement.
Noun edit
enfantement (plural enfantements)
- (obsolete) The act of giving birth.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112
- "Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112
Translations edit
obsolete: act of giving birth
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French edit
Etymology edit
From enfanter (“to give birth”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
enfantement m (plural enfantements)
Further reading edit
- “enfantement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
enfantement m (plural enfantemens)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
enfantement oblique singular, m (oblique plural enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative singular enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative plural enfantement)
- childbirth
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 172 of this essay:
- Mais se c’est apres l’enfantement ce peut estre pour ce que l’air en mauvais et corumpu et pestilencieux
- But if it's after child birth it could be because the air is bad, corrupted and pestilent