puerperiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) +‎ pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/
• 韻: -ɪəɹiəm

名詞

puerperium (plural puerperia)

1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
   • 1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84:

     As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

関連する語

参照

• “puerperium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• pure-impure

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pu.ɛrˈpɛ.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [pu.erˈpɛː.ri.um]

名詞

puerperium n (genitive puerperiī or puerperī); second declension

1. childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Calig. 8:

     puerperiō cubāre

     to be in childbed

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia
2. newborn child, infant
   • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 12.6
   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebaid 4.280

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

関連する語

派生した語

• → Italian: puerperio
• → English: puerperium

参照

• “puerperium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press