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Where does “puericulture” come from?

puericulture (English) comes from French puériculture, from Latin puer, from Proto-Italic *puweros.

puericulture (English): The rearing of young children, conceived of as an...

Definitions

  1. The rearing of young children, conceived of as an...

Ancestry of “puericulture”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchpuériculturePuericulture
2Latinpuera child; chit; a boy, lad; a male servant or...
3Proto-Italic*puweros—
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