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Where does “puériculteur” come from?

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

puériculteur (French): paediatric nurse, nursery nurse

Definitions

  1. paediatric nurse, nursery nurse

Ancestry of “puériculteur”, step by step

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