accouchement

Meaning

Delivery in childbed; parturition

Synonyms

confinement

childbirth

childbearing

childbed

lying in

vaginal birth

lying-in

delivery

Translations

accouchement

λοχεία

naissance

parturition

verlossing

parto

parto

alumbramiento

doğum

part

loğusalık

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈkuːʃmənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.