enfantement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French enfantement.

Noun

enfantement (plural enfantements)

1. (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."

Translations

obsolete: act of giving birth

• French: enfantement (fr) m

French

Etymology

From enfanter (“to give birth”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.fɑ̃t.mɑ̃/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

enfantement m (plural enfantements)

1. childbirth

Further reading

• “enfantement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

enfanter +‎ -ment.

Noun

enfantement m (plural enfantemens)

1. childbirth

Old French

Etymology

enfanter +‎ -ment.

Noun

enfantement oblique singular, m (oblique plural enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative singular enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative plural enfantement)

1. 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