puerperal

From New Latin puerperālis, from Latin puerpera (“woman in childbirth”), from puer (“child”) + pariō (“I bear”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pjuˈɝpəɹəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pjuˈɜːpəɹəl/
• (proscribed) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛɹpəɹəl/ (spelling pronunciation)

puerperal (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also:
   1. (broadly) Of, pertaining to, or associated with the peripartum period including childbirth.

• extrapuerperal
• puerperal fever
• puerperal and nonpuerperal mastitis

• antepartum
• intrapartum
• parous
• peripartum
• prepartum
• postpartum
• puerperium

• Hyphenation: pu‧er‧pe‧ral

puerperal m or f (plural puerperais)

1. puerperal

• puérpera
• puerpério

Borrowed from French puerpérale.

puerperal m or n (feminine singular puerperală, masculine plural puerperali, feminine and neuter plural puerperale)

1. puerperal

• IPA^(key): /pweɾpeˈɾal/ [pweɾ.peˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: puer‧pe‧ral

puerperal m or f (masculine and feminine plural puerperales)

1. puerperal

• “puerperal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014