Feminine

parteira

Meaning

(feminine) midwife (person who assists in childbirth)
(feminine, form-of) female equivalent of parteiro

parteiro

midhusband (male midwife)

obstetriz

μαία

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paʁˈte(j).ɾɐ/

From parto (“birth; delivery”) + -eira (“-eer”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parto, from Latin partus (“birth”), from pariō (“to bring forth, to give birth to, to produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

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Feminine

parteira

Meaning

parteiro

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