-parous

1. a combining form meaning “bearing,” “producing” that specified by the initial element:

   oviparous; viviparous.

-parous

combining form

1. giving birth to

   oviparous

Word History and Origins

Origin of -parous¹

< Latin -parus bearing, equivalent to par ( ere ) to bear, bring forth + -us adj. suffix; -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of -parous¹

from Latin -parus, from parere to bring forth

Example Sentences

The next stage of the analysis required thinking about “parous” realities—those that can generate other realities—and “nulliparous” realities—those that cannot simulate offspring realities.

From Scientific American

Words having the following terminations are usually accented on the antepenult, or third syllable from the end: cracy, ferous, fluent, flous, honal, gony, grapher, graphy, loger, logist, logy, loquy, machy, mathy, meter, metry, nomy, nomy, parous, pathy, phony, scopy, strophe, tomy, trophy, vomous, vorous.

From Project Gutenberg

Bearing in mind these varieties of congenital development in relation to the respective condition of virginity, or sterile or parous married life, the mode of occurrence and of progress of disease grows on the physician's mind, and there is no more occasion for bewilderment than to the mathematician studying conic sections, when his knowledge has grown from the basis of the science.

From Project Gutenberg