parturition

English

Etymology

From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑː(ɹ)tjʊˈɹɪʃən/, /ˌpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃəˈɹɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

parturition (countable and uncountable, plural parturitions)

2. (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.

   Synonym: childbirth

   Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 33:

     So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14:

     femoules emaciated by parturition

Derived terms

• nonparturition
• parturial
• parturitional
• periparturition
• postparturition

Related terms

• parturient

Translations

act of giving birth

• Arabic: مَخَاض m (maḵāḍ), وَضْع (ar) m (waḍʕ), وِلَادَة f (wilāda)
• Belarusian: ро́ды m pl (ródy)
• Bulgarian: раждане n (raždane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng), 分娩 (zh) (fēnmiǎn), 生產 / 生产 (zh) (shēngchǎn), 娩 (zh) (miǎn)

• Czech: porod (cs) m
• Esperanto: akuŝo
• Faroese: barnsburður m
• Finnish: synnytys (fi)
• French: accouchement (fr), parturition (fr) f, naissance (fr) f
• German: Entbindung (de) f, Geburt (de) f, Geburtsvorgang (de) m, Gebären n, Partus m, Parturitio f
• Greek: γέννα (el) f (génna), τοκετός (el) m (toketós)

  Ancient Greek: τόκος m (tókos)

• Hindi: प्रसूति (hi) f (prasūti), प्रसव (hi) m (prasav)
• Hungarian: szülés (hu)
• Indonesian: parturisi, persalinan (id), kelahiran (id), partus (id)
• Irish: breith clainne f
• Italian: parto (it) m
• Japanese: 分身 (ja) (ぶんしん, bunshin), 分娩 (ja) (ぶんべん, bunben), 出産 (ja) (しゅっさん, shussan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zarokanîn (ku), zayîn (bo ajalan)

• Malay: pelahiran
• Māori: whānautanga, wherereitanga, taunahua (if difficult)
• Old English: tēam (ang)
• Polish: poród (pl) m
• Portuguese: parto (pt) m
• Russian: ро́ды (ru) m pl (ródy), (birth) рожде́ние (ru) n (roždénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: tinneas-cloinne m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: порођај m

  Latin: porođaj (sh) m

• Slovak: pôrod (sk), rodenie
• Spanish: parto (es) m, nacimiento (es) m
• Tagalog: panganganak
• Telugu: ప్రసవం (te) (prasavaṁ)
• Ukrainian: ро́ди m pl (ródy)
• Venetan: part (vec) m
• Volapük: kujör (vo), kujöram

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin parturitiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ty.ʁi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

parturition f (plural parturitions)

1. parturition

Related terms

• parturiante

Further reading

• “parturition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012