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Where does “puerperium” come from?

puerperium (English) comes from Latin puerperium, from Latin puerpera, from Latin puerperus, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.

puerperium (English): The period of time lasting around a month...

Definitions

  1. The period of time lasting around a month...

Ancestry of “puerperium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpuerperiumchildbed, childbirth
2Latinpuerperaa woman in labor or in childbed, a lying-in...
3Latinpuerperusof a woman in labor
4Latinpariō—
5Latin-iō—
6Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
7Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
9Chichewaiyehe, she
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