Where does “puérpera” come from?
puérpera (Portuguese) comes 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-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
puérpera (Portuguese): puerpera a woman who has just given birth
Definitions
- puerpera a woman who has just given birth
Ancestry of “puérpera”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | puerpera | a woman in labor or in childbed, a lying-in... |
| 2 | Latin | puerperus | of a woman in labor |
| 3 | Latin | pariō | to bear, to give birth to |
| 4 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 8 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |