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primipara

pri·mi·para

UK/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/ US/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/ uncommon

noun

1.

(obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time

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Origin

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.

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