parturient

[ pahr-toor-ee-uhnt, -tyoor- ]

adjective

1. bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
2. pertaining to parturition.
3. bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.

parturient

/ pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt /

adjective

1. of or relating to childbirth
2. giving birth
3. producing or about to produce a new idea, etc

Derived Forms

• parˈturiency, noun

Other Words From

• par·turi·en·cy noun
• postpar·turi·ent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of parturient¹

1585–95; < Latin parturient- (stem of parturiēns ) being in labor, literally, desiring to bring forth (present participle of parturīre to be about to give birth), equivalent to part ( us ) (past participle of parere to bring forth, bear) + -uri- desiderative suffix + -ent- -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of parturient¹

C16: via Latin parturīre, from parere to bring forth

Example Sentences

There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.

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This might be done by the force of certain external conditions operating upon the parturient system.

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Applied to the breasts of parturient women it dries up the milk and in the same way tends to reduce any glandular enlargement.

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In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.

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It was an Arab custom in certain places to build a hut outside the camp, where the parturient woman had to stay for a time.

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