primipara
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”),[1] from prīmus (“first”) + parere[2] (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/, /ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/
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- Hyphenation: pri‧mi‧pa‧ra
Noun edit
primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)
- (obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy. [from mid 19th c.]
- Synonyms: primigravid, primigravida, primip
- Antonyms: multigravid, multigravida, multip, multipara
- (obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
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Translations edit
woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — see also primigravida
woman or female animal that has carried a pregnancy to a viable gestational age
References edit
- ^ “primipara, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2007.
- ^ “primipara”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
gravidity and parity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Noun edit
primipara f (plural primipare)