abolitionism

en-noun

abolitionism (countable and uncountable, plural abolitionisms)

Norwegian Bokmål: abolisjonisme

Polish: abolicjonizm

/ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.əˌnɪz.m̩/

աբոլիցիոնիզմ

opinion in favor of the abolition of something

Abolitionism is a term that refers to a particular ideological and legal approach to prostitution. The approach has its roots in 19th-century feminism and is still a potent force […] Thus abolitionism arose as a movement against the state regulation of prostitution. The leader of the abolitionist movement was Josephine Butler, […]

2006 January 1, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.

Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.


abort

→ Polish: abort

→ Portuguese: abort

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.


abort

en-verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

aborts (present singular third-person)
aborting (participle present)
aborted (participle past)
aborted (past)

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

keskeyttää kasvu

biology: to cause an organism to develop minimally


abort

From English abort, from Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

to abort; to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term


abort

abort (nominative singular)
abortlar (nominative plural)
abortnıñ (genitive singular)
abortlarnıñ (genitive plural)
abortqa (dative singular)
abortlarğa (dative plural)
abortnı (accusative singular)
abortlarnı (accusative plural)
abortta (locative singular)
abortlarda (locative plural)
aborttan (ablative singular)
abortlardan (ablative plural)


abort

head

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

aborten (definite singular)
aborter (indefinite plural)
abort (indefinite nominative singular)
aborten (definite nominative singular)
aborter (indefinite nominative plural)
aborterne (definite nominative plural)
aborts (genitive indefinite singular)
abortens (definite genitive singular)
aborters (genitive indefinite plural)
aborternes (definite genitive plural)


abort

abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

abordi (genitive)
aborti (partitive)
abort (nominative singular)
abordid (nominative plural)
abort (accusative nominative singular)
abordid (accusative nominative plural)
abordi (accusative genitive singular)
abordid (accusative genitive plural)
abordi (genitive singular)
abortide (genitive plural)
aborti (partitive singular)
aborte (partitive plural)
abortisid (partitive plural)
aborti (illative singular)
abordisse (illative singular)
abortidesse (illative plural)
abordesse (illative plural)
abordis (inessive singular)
abortides (inessive plural)
abordes (inessive plural)
abordist (elative singular)
abortidest (elative plural)
abordest (elative plural)
abordile (allative singular)
abortidele (allative plural)
abordele (allative plural)
abordil (adessive singular)
abortidel (adessive plural)
abordel (adessive plural)
abordilt (ablative singular)
abortidelt (ablative plural)
abordelt (ablative plural)
abordiks (singular translative)
abortideks (plural translative)
abordeks (plural translative)
abordini (singular terminative)
abortideni (plural terminative)
abordina (essive singular)
abortidena (essive plural)
abordita (abessive singular)
abortideta (abessive plural)
abordiga (comitative singular)
abortidega (comitative plural)

Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.


abort

aborten (definite singular)
aborter (indefinite plural)
abortene (definite plural)

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «abort».ogg

From Latin abortus (“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior (“I disappear; miscarry, am aborted (of a baby)”), a compound from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from orior (“I rise, appear, am born”), from Proto-Italic *orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”).

der

foreta en abort

kjønnsbetinget abort

selvbestemt abort

self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law)

foreldrene sendte ham to tusen kroner og det ble ordnet med illegal abort

1973, Tor Edvin Dahl, Guds tjener, page 136:

his parents sent him two thousand kroner and an illegal abortion was arranged

hun var helt desperat av redsel for at hun ikke skulle få innvilget aborten

1975, Liv Køltzow, Historien om Eli, page 119:

she was desperate for fear that she would not be granted an abortion

Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort

Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion

de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort

1990, Kåre Willoch, Statsminister, page 53:

the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion

(medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication)


abort

aborten (definite singular)
abortar (indefinite plural)
abortane (definite plural)


abort

abort (nominative singular)
aborty (nominative plural)
abortu (genitive singular)
abortów (genitive plural)
abortowi (dative singular)
abortom (dative plural)
abort (accusative singular)
aborty (accusative plural)
abortem (instrumental singular)
abortami (instrumental plural)
aborcie (locative singular)
abortach (locative plural)
aborcie (singular vocative)
aborty (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: poronienie

(medicine) abortion (act of inducing abortion)

(computing) force quit, closing (act of stopping a program)


abort

abort (indefinite nominative singular)
aborts (genitive indefinite singular)
aborten (definite nominative singular)
abortens (definite genitive singular)
aborter (indefinite nominative plural)
aborters (genitive indefinite plural)
aborterna (definite nominative plural)
aborternas (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: abortti

Hon gjorde abort

abort, abortion (the process of ending a pregnancy)


abortifacient

en-adj

abortifacient (comparative more abortifacient, superlative most abortifacient)

more abortifacient (comparative)
most abortifacient (superlative)

First attested in 1875. abort + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”).


abortion

en-noun

abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)

From Latin abortiōnem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣwyrp (literally “throwing out, rejection”).

surkastuma

fruit/produce that doesn't come to maturity

Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:

The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China. Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried. “They were told by the factory, ‘Have an abortion or be fired’,” she said. They chose to keep her and were fired.

2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere:

Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.

2017 October 5, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian:

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

人工妊娠中絶

じんこうにんしんちゅうぜつ


abortional

en-adj

abortional (comparative more abortional, superlative most abortional)

more abortional (comparative)
most abortional (superlative)

/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩.l̩/

(rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.


abortionist

Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].

The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.

1848 October 7, “Morals and Murder – the Case of Eliza Wilson”, in The Medical Times, volume 18, number 471, London, page 373:

Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.

1998, J. David Bleich, Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective, volume 1, Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, →ISBN, page 277:

According to Bray, “there is a difference between taking a retired abortionist and executing him, and killing a practicing abortionist who is regularly killing babies.” The first act is in Bray’s view retributive, the second defensive.

2003, Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd edition, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24:

In 1962, when abortion was still illegal, I published an anonymous interview with Dr. Robert Spencer, a humane abortionist who was known as “The Saint.”

2005, Paul Krassner, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist, →ISBN, page 24:

[…] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.

2009, Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative, →ISBN, page 191:

Then she asks her to go first to meet the abortionist. Then she neglects to make a reservation at the hotel the abortionist specifies. That almost sinks the arrangement: The abortionist has experience suggesting that hotel will be a safe venue, and suspects he may be set up for a police trap.

2009–2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2010, review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, page 146:

(now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

aborteur

person who performs abortions — see also angel maker

(chiefly derogatory) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.


abortive

abortive (comparative more abortive, superlative most abortive)

more abortive (comparative)
most abortive (superlative)

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First attested in 1382, with the meaning "causing stillbirth or miscarriage". From Middle English abortif, from Old French abortif, from Latin abortīvus (“causing abortion”), from aborior (“miscarry, disappear”), from ab (“amiss”) + orior (“appear, be born, arise”).

abortive medicines

1809, Bartholomew Parr, Medical Dictionary:

Each country may have a different prevalence of infectious abortive agents. The most common agents of abortion in cattle are Brucella spp., Campylobacter spp., Chlamydiaceae, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., […]

2018 May, Carla Sebastiania, Ludovica Curcioa, Marcella Ciulloa, Deborah Crucianib, Silvia Crottib, Cristina Pescab, Martina Torricellia, Martina Sebastianellia, Andrea Felicic, Massimo Biagetti, “A multi-screening Fast qPCR approach to the identification of abortive agents in ruminants”, in Journal of Microbiological Methods, volume 148, →DOI, page 12:

(medicine, pharmacology, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.


accoucheur

Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“I place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“I put, place, set”). See accouchement.

der

And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.

1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:

Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163:

(medicine) A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).


birth

en-verb

birth (third-person singular simple present births, present participle birthing, simple past and past participle birthed)

births (present singular third-person)
birthing (participle present)
birthed (participle past)
birthed (past)

From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above).

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!

1939, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, John Van Druten, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gone with the Wind (film):

Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”

2023 March 5, Jonathan Bouquet, “May I have a word about… being stuck in a permacrisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).


kindle

kindle (third-person singular simple present kindles, present participle kindling, simple past and past participle kindled)

kindles (present singular third-person)
kindling (participle present)
kindled (participle past)
kindled (past)

From Middle English kyndel, from kynde + -el. The verb is derived from the noun form by conversion.

ORLANDO Are you native of this place?
ROSALIND As the cony that you see
dwell where she is kindled.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 344-46:

The poor beast had but lately kindled.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

If she kindled and lost just a few kits and is not bony over her back and hind end, you can rebreed immediately. If she kindled a large litter (more than, say, eight kits), you may wish to wait a week or two before rebreeding so that she can ...

2014, Karen Patry, The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:

(intransitive, of a rabbit or hare) To bring forth young; to give birth.


prezerwatywa

prezerwatywa (nominative singular)
prezerwatywy (nominative plural)
prezerwatywy (genitive singular)
prezerwatyw (genitive plural)
prezerwatywie (dative singular)
prezerwatywom (dative plural)
prezerwatywę (accusative singular)
prezerwatywy (accusative plural)
prezerwatywą (instrumental singular)
prezerwatywami (instrumental plural)
prezerwatywie (locative singular)
prezerwatywach (locative plural)
prezerwatywo (singular vocative)
prezerwatywy (plural vocative)


give birth

give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)

gives birth (present singular third-person)
giving birth (participle present)
gave birth (past)
given birth (participle past)

It was clear that she was about to give birth.

(intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.


bear

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past bore or (archaic) bare, past participle borne or bore or (see usage notes) born)

bears (present singular third-person)
bearing (participle present)
bore (past)
bare (archaic past)
borne (participle past)
bore (participle past)
born (participle past)
bear (infinitive)

From Middle English beren (“carry, bring forth”), from Old English beran (“to carry, bear, bring”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti, from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).
Akin to Old High German beran (“carry”), Dutch baren, Norwegian Bokmål bære, Norwegian Nynorsk bera, German gebären, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (bairan), Sanskrit भरति (bharati), Latin ferō, and Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō), Albanian bie (“to bring, to bear”), Russian брать (bratʹ, “to take”), Persian بردن (bordan, “to take, to carry”).

cog

hoz (with the objects gyümölcs and termés)

In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for ninety generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a superbeing. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the duke, she disobeyed and gave birth to a son: Paul, Paul Atreides.

1984, 10:44 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Princess Irulan, →OCLC:

(transitive, ditransitive) To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

This year our apple trees bore a good crop of fruit.

Betwixt two seasons comes th' auspicious air, / This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

(transitive, less commonly intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.


throw

en-verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
throwed (nonstandard past)
thrown (participle past)
throwed (nonstandard participle past)
threw (nonstandard participle past)
throw (infinitive)

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”).
Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

hedh

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

heitellä

repeatedly, continuously and/or indifferently

dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

throw nickels around like manhole covers

throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

trust someone as far as one could throw them

At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.

1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 49:

They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets.

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:

(transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).


bi

Cognate with Igala bí (“to give birth to”)

Ọmọ mẹ́rin l'ó bí.


withdrawal

en-noun

withdrawal (countable and uncountable, plural withdrawals)

deposit

antonym(s) of “receiving from someone's care”

alcohol withdrawal syndrome
benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome
withdrawal

/wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/

/wɪθˈdɹɔː(ə)l/

/ˈwɪθˌdɹɔːl/

/wɪðˈdɹɔːɹəl/

/wɪθˈdɹɔːɹəl/

A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.


懷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡruːl) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 褱 (OC *ɡruːl, *ɡruːl, “to miss; bosom”). The original meaning is "to miss, to long for". Originally written 褱, see there for more. Hence, the phonetic component also adds part of the original meaning.

Han compound

懷胎

怀胎

to be equipped with skills and talents (inside oneself) but without the opportunity to use them

懷才不遇

怀才不遇

to carry in one's bosom or on one's body

to harbor in one's mind; to keep in mind; to entertain

(literary or dialectal Mandarin) to be pregnant

(Magong Hokkien) pocket (bag sewn into clothing)


labour

en-noun

labour (countable and uncountable, plural labours)

term-label

(British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)

From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.

(medicine, obstetrics) The act of a mother giving birth.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

(Middle Polish) female mourner, griever (woman who cries over someone's death at a funeral)


baba

baba (nominative singular)
babowie (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
babów (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
babów (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
babowie (plural vocative)

(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) baba (holy man, a spiritual leader)


baba

babka (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bŏb (genitive plural)
babōw (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babōm (dative plural)
babã (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babōm (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babōma (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

wife; girlfriend (female romantic partner)

(derogatory) pansy, big girl's blouse (male of weak or cowardly character)


baba

babka (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
babje (dual nominative)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
babow (dual genitive)
babow (genitive plural)
babje (dative singular)
babomaj (dative dual)
babam (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
babje (accusative dual)
baby (accusative plural)
babu (instrumental singular)
babomaj (dual instrumental)
babami (instrumental plural)
babje (locative singular)
babomaj (dual locative)
babach (locative plural)
baba (singular vocative)
babje (dual vocative)
baby (plural vocative)


maternal death

en-noun

maternal death (countable and uncountable, plural maternal deaths)

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The death of a woman that occurs directly related to the procreative process; obstetric death.


French letter

From French + letter. Compare earlier French pox, French-sick (“syphilis”), or later French safe, French tickler (“condom”), or French kiss. Attested from the 19th century.

‘So you’re fifteen – and you know the function of a “French letter”? You are familiar with its use?’
‘I know what it’s for, sir, yes.’

1984, Leslie Thomas, In my Wildest Dreams, page 289:

“I suppose it’s too much to hope that you have a question about gonorrhea. Those questions are so much easier to answer.”[…]
“I was going to ask about what you said earlier. That you’d... that you’d... not used a French letter in eighteen months.”

2012, Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter, page 80:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, euphemistic) A condom.


condom

→ Afar: kondom

→ Cantonese: condom, dom

→ Cebuano: kondom

→ Czech: kondom

desctree

→? Danish: kondom
→ Greenlandic: kondomi

→ Dutch: condoom
Indonesian: kondom

→ Finnish: kondomi

→ French: condom

→ German: Kondom

→ Italian: condom

→ Japanese: コンドーム (kondōmu)

→ Korean: 콘돔 (kondom)

→ Macedonian: кондо́м (kondóm)

→ Malay: kondom

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kondom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kondom

→ Polish: kondom

desc

→ Russian: кондо́м (kondóm), гондо́н (gondón)

→ Serbo-Croatian: kondom

→ Swahili: kondomu

→ Tagalog: kondom

→ Tok Pisin: kondom

→? Turkish: kondom

Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”).

buy a pack of condoms

flavoured condom

ribbed condoms

However, substantial proportions of participants preferred the nonlatex condom or reported that they would recommend its use to others.

2009, Albert Altchek, Liane Deligdisch, Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Gynecology:

We're in the small percentage of cases in which condoms are ineffective. Looks as if you have some sort of supersperm. You must be very proud.

2015, Beth Burgoon, About That Night, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Superromance, →ISBN, page 123:

I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared.

2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:

A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STIs.

(loosely) A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn as a barrier between an erect penis and the inner surface of the vagina, anus, or mouth during sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy or the spread of STIs.


condom

Unadapted borrowing from English condom.


accouchement

en-noun

accouchement (countable and uncountable, plural accouchements)

Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.

der

Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.

The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]

1763 June, “An account of the law-suit concerning the succession to the late Duke of Douglas, continued”, in The Scots Magazine, volume 25, page 308:

a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 156:

A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.

1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:


accoucheuse

Borrowed from French accoucheuse, female of accoucheur.


turn

en-verb

turn (third-person singular simple present turns, present participle turning, simple past and past participle turned or (obsolete) turnt)

turns (present singular third-person)
turning (participle present)
turned (participle past)
turned (past)
turnt (obsolete participle past)
turnt (obsolete past)
turn (infinitive)

From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.

lyödä kierre

in cricket, make the ball move sideways when it bounces

kiertää

of a cricket ball, move sideways when it bounces

-ul

e.g. “turn yellow”: sárga → sárgul, “turn brown”: barna → barnul

(obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

kääntää

obstetrics: bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery


carry

en-verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

carries (present singular third-person)
carrying (participle present)
carried (participle past)
carried (past)

borrow

the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction

→ Cantonese: carry

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

tīhei

on the back but held in place with hands

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

to carry a life insurance

A merchant is carrying a large stock. A farm carries a mortgage. A broker carries stock for a customer.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

Nobody looked like they were carrying, other than those who had knives strapped to their belts, although with Alaska's new concealed-carry permit, available to anyone who trundled themselves down to the local police station to take the class, someone in this crowd could have a rocket launcher stuffed into their boot and she'd never know it.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 72:

(intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.


trimester

From Dutch trimester, from French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

trimester: a period of three months or about three months.

(obstetrics) divisions of pregnancy period, each lasting for approximately 3 months.


rubber

en-noun

rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

desc

→ Kashubian: roberk (Canada, United State)

→ Sikaiana: lapa

From rub + -er.
The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket

1979, “At Home He's A Tourist”, in Entertainment!, performed by Gang of Four:

My daddy said "Treat young girls like your mother" / My momma said "Trust no hoe, use a rubber"

2019, “Ricky”, performed by Denzel Curry:

(countable, Canada, US, slang) A condom.


fall pregnant

en-verb

fall pregnant (third-person singular simple present falls pregnant, present participle falling pregnant, simple past fell pregnant, past participle fallen pregnant)

falls pregnant (present singular third-person)
falling pregnant (participle present)
fell pregnant (past)
fallen pregnant (participle past)

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We were delighted when I fell pregnant with my first son.

(intransitive, formal or literary) To become pregnant.

懷孕 /怀孕

typically with 了 (le) to mark the change of state


Caesarean section

en-noun

Caesarean section (countable and uncountable, plural Caesarean sections)

Likely corruption of the Latin phrase a caesō mātris uterō (“[born] from a cut in the mother’s womb”), supposedly the origin of Caesar's name. More at Caesar, at caedō, and at Caesarean section § Etymology.

Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.

帝王切開

ていおうせっかい teiōsekkai


C-section

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2011. San Francisco Chronicle
"C-section not necessarily end to vaginal delivery"

Caesarean section
Caesarean section#English


Caesarean

Caesareans (plural)
caesarean (alternative)
Cæsarean (alternative)
cæsarean (alternative)
Caesarian (alternative)
caesarian (alternative)
Cæsarian (alternative)
cæsarian (alternative)
cesarean (alternative)
Cesarean (alternative)
Cesarian (alternative)
cesarian (alternative)

Shortening of Caesarean section; see also Caesarean section § Etymology.


出生

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ saːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰuʔ²⁴⁻²¹ sɛiŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɔʔ¹⁻⁴⁵ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/

/t͡sʰuoʔ²⁻²⁴ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚⁵⁻²⁴ sĩ³³/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ sɛ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ sẽ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚²⁻⁵ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚⁵⁻²⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ sẽ³³/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ saːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰuʔ²⁴⁻²¹ sɛiŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɔʔ¹⁻⁴⁵ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/

/t͡sʰuoʔ²⁻²⁴ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚⁵⁻²⁴ sĩ³³/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ sɛ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ sẽ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚²⁻⁵ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰut̚⁵⁻²⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ sẽ³³/

A loyal minister behaves in just this fashion. If he can advantage his ruler and profit his state, he will not consider shirking or evading anything, even killing himself and abjuring life to accompany his ruler in death. … Hong Yan can be called loyal. He killed himself and gave up his own life to accompany his lord.

Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE

Zhōngchén yì rán. Gǒu biàn yú zhǔ lì yú guó, wú gǎn cíwéi shāshēn chūshēng yǐ xùn zhī....... Hóng Yǎn kěwèi zhōng yǐ, shāshēn chūshēng yǐ xùn qí jūn.

忠臣亦然。苟便於主利於國，無敢辭違殺身出生以徇之。……弘演可謂忠矣，殺身出生以徇其君。

忠臣亦然。苟便于主利于国，无敢辞违杀身出生以徇之。……弘演可谓忠矣，杀身出生以徇其君。

A sparrow, pursued by a bird of prey, flies into someone's arms or enters someone's dwelling. It is not that the sparrow is casting away its life, but that to the rear there is something to fear.

Zhìniǎo zhú què, yǒu xí rén zhī huái, rù rén zhī shì zhě, fēi chūshēng yě, hòu yǒu dàn yě.

鷙鳥逐雀，有襲人之懷，入人之室者，非出生也，後有憚也。

鸷鸟逐雀，有袭人之怀，入人之室者，非出生也，后有惮也。

(obsolete) to lay down one's own life, to give up one's own life


quicken

en-verb

quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)

quickens (present singular third-person)
quickening (participle present)
quickened (participle past)
quickened (past)

From Middle English quikenen (“to become alive again after dying; to raise (someone) from the dead; to regain consciousness or strength; to give vitality, revive; to regain validity; to nourish; to spare (the life of someone or something); to ignite; to illuminate; of events: to happen more quickly; of clouds: to form”) [and other forms], from quiken (“to come to life; to become alive again after dying; to give or regain vitality, revive; of a seed: to germinate, grow; to arouse (anger); to inspire; to reinforce, strengthen; to make (a substance) alchemically active; to nourish, sustain; to sharpen; to ignite; to illuminate; of news: to spread”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs). Quiken is derived from Old English cwician (“to bring to life, vivify; to come to life, become living; to quicken”), from cwic (“alive, live, living; mentally agile; intelligent, keen”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive; lively; quick”) and Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns). The English word may be analysed as quick (“moving with swiftness; occurring in a short time; (archaic) alive, living; (archaic) pregnant”) + -en (suffix attached to some adjectives forming transitive verbs meaning ‘to make [adjective]’).
Cognates
* Danish kvikne (“to quicken, revive”)
* Icelandic kvikna (“to ignite; to turn on”)
* Swedish kvickna (“to revive”)

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quecken, queken, quekenen, quicken, quickene, quickenen, quickin, quicknen, quicnen, quiken, quikene, quikken, quikkenen, quikkin, quikne, quiknen, quikyn, quycken, quyken, quykene, quykken, quykne, quykyn, qweken, qwekyn, qwicken, qwiken, qwikken, qwikkin, qwikyn, qwycken, qwyken, qwykken, qwykkyn, qwykyn, qwyykne, (Northern England) qwhikken, qwhykkyn, whiken, whikken

suffix

suffix attached to some adjectives forming transitive verbs meaning ‘to make 􂀿adjective􂁀’

cog

[…] she
Quickened the fire and laid the board, […]

1870, William Morris, “December: The Fostering of Aslaug”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 75:

Was it alight once? Still lives spark enough
For breath to quicken, run the smouldering ash
Red right through.

1887, Robert Browning, “With Charles Avison”, in Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day: […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 210:

Senses relating to life or states of activity.

(archaic) To make or help (something) to burn.


placenta

en-noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

(anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

(botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.


guanto

desctree

→ Egyptian Arabic: جوانتي (guwanti, gawanti)
→ Hijazi Arabic: جونتي (juwinti, juwanti)

From Old Occitan, from Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove, mitten”), from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from the root *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”). Cognates include French gant, Catalan guant, Sicilian nguantu and Spanish guante.


spiral

spiralen (definite singular)
spiraler (indefinite plural)
spiralene (definite plural)

From Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spira.


spiral

spiralen (definite singular)
spiralar (indefinite plural)
spiralane (definite plural)


spiral

spiral (indefinite nominative singular)
spirals (genitive indefinite singular)
spiralen (definite nominative singular)
spiralens (definite genitive singular)
spiraler (indefinite nominative plural)
spiralers (genitive indefinite plural)
spiralerna (definite nominative plural)
spiralernas (definite genitive plural)

an intrauterine device, a coil (contraceptive device)


fetus

en-noun

fetus (plural fetuses or fetus or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii)

tlb

(American spelling, also Canada, Australia)

fetuses (plural)
fetus (plural)
feti (hypercorrect plural)
fetii (misconstruction plural)
foetus (alternative)
fœtus (alternative)
phoetus (alternative)
phœtus (alternative)
faetus (alternative)
fætus (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

lbor

Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.

1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2

An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.

fetus

an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal

The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.

A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.

The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.

1959 [1689], John Locke, chapter 6, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, vol. 2, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., page 77:


guma

gumka (diminutive)
guma (nominative singular)
gumy (nominative plural)
gumy (genitive singular)
gum (genitive plural)
gumie (dative singular)
gumom (dative plural)
gumę (accusative singular)
gumy (accusative plural)
gumą (instrumental singular)
gumami (instrumental plural)
gumie (locative singular)
gumach (locative plural)
gumo (singular vocative)
gumy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Gumma, from New Latin gumma, from Latin gummi.


kondom

kóndom (canonical masculine)
kondomwá (feminine plural)


kondom

kondom (nominative singular)
kondomy (nominative plural)
kondomu (genitive singular)
kondomů (genitive plural)
kondomu (dative singular)
kondomům (dative plural)
kondom (accusative singular)
kondomy (accusative plural)
kondome (singular vocative)
kondomy (plural vocative)
kondomu (locative singular)
kondomech (locative plural)
kondomem (instrumental singular)
kondomy (instrumental plural)


kondom

head

kondom n (singular definite kondomet, plural indefinite kondomer)

kondomet (definite singular)
kondomer (indefinite plural)
kondom (indefinite nominative singular)
kondomet (definite nominative singular)
kondomer (indefinite nominative plural)
kondomerne (definite nominative plural)
kondoms (genitive indefinite singular)
kondomets (definite genitive singular)
kondomers (genitive indefinite plural)
kondomernes (definite genitive plural)

→ Greenlandic: kondomi


kondom

From Dutch condoom, from English condom.
* The sense of protective case or cover is comparable to the Dutch synonym kous (“condom, mantle”, literally “stocking, sock”).

(literal) condom: A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STDs.


kondom

ms-noun

kondom (Jawi spelling کوندوم, plural kondom-kondom, informal 1st possessive kondomku, 2nd possessive kondommu, 3rd possessive kondomnya)

کوندوم (Jawi)
kondom-kondom (plural)
kondomku (first-person informal possessive)
kondommu (possessive second-person)
kondomnya (possessive third-person)


kondom

kondomet (definite singular)
kondom (indefinite plural)
kondomer (indefinite plural)
kondoma (definite plural)
kondomene (definite plural)


kondom

kondomet (definite singular)
kondom (indefinite plural)
kondoma (definite plural)


kondom

kondom (nominative singular)
kondomy (nominative plural)
kondomu (genitive singular)
kondomów (genitive plural)
kondomowi (dative singular)
kondomom (dative plural)
kondom (accusative singular)
kondomy (accusative plural)
kondomem (instrumental singular)
kondomami (instrumental plural)
kondomie (locative singular)
kondomach (locative plural)
kondomie (singular vocative)
kondomy (plural vocative)


kondom

kòndōm (canonical masculine)
ко̀ндо̄м (Cyrillic)
kòndōm (nominative singular)
kondomi (nominative plural)
kondóma (genitive singular)
kondoma (genitive plural)
kondomu (dative singular)
kondomima (dative plural)
kondom (accusative singular)
kondome (accusative plural)
kondome (singular vocative)
kondomi (plural vocative)
kondomu (locative singular)
kondomima (locative plural)
kondomom (instrumental singular)
kondomima (instrumental plural)


kondom

kondọ̑m (canonical inanimate masculine)
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kondóm (nominative singular)
kondóma (dual nominative)
kondómi (nominative plural)
kondóma (genitive singular)
kondómov (dual genitive)
kondómov (genitive plural)
kondómu (dative singular)
kondómoma (dative dual)
kondómom (dative plural)
kondóm (accusative singular)
kondóma (accusative dual)
kondóme (accusative plural)
kondómu (locative singular)
kondómih (dual locative)
kondómih (locative plural)
kondómom (instrumental singular)
kondómoma (dual instrumental)
kondómi (instrumental plural)


kondom

kondom (indefinite nominative singular)
kondoms (genitive indefinite singular)
kondomen (definite nominative singular)
kondomens (definite genitive singular)
kondomer (indefinite nominative plural)
kondomers (genitive indefinite plural)
kondomerna (definite nominative plural)
kondomernas (definite genitive plural)

(all slang)


kondom

head

kondom (definite accusative kondomu, plural kondomlar)

kondomu (accusative definite)
kondomlar (plural)
kondom (nominative singular)
kondomlar (nominative plural)
kondomu (accusative definite singular)
kondomları (accusative definite plural)
kondoma (dative singular)
kondomlara (dative plural)
kondomda (locative singular)
kondomlarda (locative plural)
kondomdan (ablative singular)
kondomlardan (ablative plural)
kondomun (genitive singular)
kondomların (genitive plural)

Borrowed from English condom, perhaps through French condom.


sheath

From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.

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chethe, scǽð, scaþ, schede, schete, scheth, schethe, seaþ, seeth, seth, sethe, shæþ, shede, sheethe, sheith, (Southwest) ssethe, sseþe, (early forms) scæðe, scaþe, seaþe


sponge

en-noun

sponge (countable and uncountable, plural sponges)

→ Hindi: स्पंज (spañj)

→ Japanese: スポンジ (suponji)

→ Korean: 스펀지 (seupeonji)

→ Pashto: سپنج (spanj)

→ Welsh: spynj

→ Malay: span

From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos).

(countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.


diaphragm

/ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/

From Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō).

мембра́на

anatomy: separating membrane or sheet of muscle

A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.


delivery

en-noun

delivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)

From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.

(genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.


with child

Replaced earlier mid child. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

[N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]

1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 118:

I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.

1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:


gravid

en-adj

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

more gravid (comparative)
most gravid (superlative)

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.

1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:

The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:

The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507:

(of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.

հղի

pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)


gravid

gravid (indefinite positive)
gravitt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
gravida (indefinite plural positive)
gravide (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
gravide (definite masculine positive singular)
gravida (definite positive)

Hon blev gravid när hon hade sex

vara gravid i sjunde månaden

(literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)


breech

en-noun

breech (countable and uncountable, plural breeches)

From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.


breech

(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.


breech

(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.


gestation

en-noun

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

/d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/

The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.

xestación

period of time a fetus develops inside mother's body — see also pregnancy


insemination

insemination (countable and uncountable, plural inseminations)

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At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:

The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).

تَخْصِيب

introduction of sperm into a female's reproductive system


prenatal

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A person who is expecting to give birth.

She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.

A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth.


prenatal

es-adj

prenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural prenatales)


prophylactic

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

It is not clear whether such education is to be directed to homosexuals (for whom prophylactics are not a contraceptive) or to heterosexuals as well (for whom prophylactics are a contraceptive).

1977, Human Life Center, International Review of Natural Family Planning, Human Life Center, St. John's University, page 2:

Given the widespread use of coitus interruptus and male prophylactics as contraceptive practices in France […]

1994, Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1927, University of Chicago Press, page 96:

Some men put the prophylactic on just the tip of the penis: this is a mistake, because the prophylactic will come off.

2000, Peter Parnell, John Irving, The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud's, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., page 46:

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

(US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.


rase

head

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat)

raseda (genitive)
rasedat (partitive)
rase (nominative singular)
rasedad (nominative plural)
rase (accusative nominative singular)
rasedad (accusative nominative plural)
raseda (accusative genitive singular)
rasedad (accusative genitive plural)
raseda (genitive singular)
rasedate (genitive plural)
rasedat (partitive singular)
rasedaid (partitive plural)
rasedasse (illative singular)
rasedatesse (illative plural)
rasedaisse (illative plural)
rasedas (inessive singular)
rasedates (inessive plural)
rasedais (inessive plural)
rasedast (elative singular)
rasedatest (elative plural)
rasedaist (elative plural)
rasedale (allative singular)
rasedatele (allative plural)
rasedaile (allative plural)
rasedal (adessive singular)
rasedatel (adessive plural)
rasedail (adessive plural)
rasedalt (ablative singular)
rasedatelt (ablative plural)
rasedailt (ablative plural)
rasedaks (singular translative)
rasedateks (plural translative)
rasedaiks (plural translative)
rasedani (singular terminative)
rasedateni (plural terminative)
rasedana (essive singular)
rasedatena (essive plural)
rasedata (abessive singular)
rasedateta (abessive plural)
rasedaga (comitative singular)
rasedatega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *rasëda (“tired; pregnant; heavy”), from Proto-Finno-Permic *ranśe. Related to raske (“heavy”) (from *raskëda, where the -k- is a derivational suffix). Replaced earlier raskejalgne (literally “having heavy feet”).

inh

rase naine

rasedaks jääma

Naine on kaheksandat kuud rase.

pregnant (carrying a fetus developing in its organism, expecting a child)


unborn

en-noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

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From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:

(countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.


pil

nl-noun

pil f (plural pillen, diminutive pilletje n)

pillen (plural)
pilletje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pil

→ Indonesian: pil

→ Papiamentu: pelchi, pilchi, peeltsji (from the diminutive)

→ Sranan Tongo: perki

→ Saramaccan: péiki

From Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

(with definite article: de pil) 'the' contraceptive pill


conceive

en-verb

conceive (third-person singular simple present conceives, present participle conceiving, simple past and past participle conceived)

conceives (present singular third-person)
conceiving (participle present)
conceived (participle past)
conceived (past)
conceave (alternative)

From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to devise, to conceive”).

der

Can you conceive of him as a leader?

We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 4:

[…]you will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the ſame Climate […]

1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxii:

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Remember, if you please, that the man you call slave sprang from the same seed, enjoys the same daylight, breathes like you, lives like you, dies like you. You can as easily conceive him a free man as he can conceive you a slave.

2008 [c. 65 CE], Seneca the Younger, “Letter on Slaves”, in Andrew Bailey et al., editors, The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought, volume 1, →ISBN, page 258:

(ambitransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.


pregnant

en-adj

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

more pregnant (comparative)
most pregnant (superlative)
prægnant (alternative)
pregnaunt (alternative)

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


protection

en-noun

protection (countable and uncountable, plural protections)

/pɹəˈtɛkʃən/

From Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Late Latin prōtectiō (“a covering over”), from Latin prōtēctus, perfect passive participle of prōtegere (“to protect, cover in front”). Displaced native Old English ġesċildnes.

der

A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.


childbirth

en-noun

childbirth (usually uncountable, plural childbirths)

childbirths (plural)
child-birth (alternative)

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From Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).

der

The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:

The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.


foster

head

foster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)

fosteret (definite singular)
fostret (definite singular)
foster (indefinite plural)
fostre (indefinite plural)
fostra (definite plural)
fostrene (definite plural)


foster

fosteret (definite singular)
foster (indefinite plural)
fostera (definite plural)


bobo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

onomatopoeic

nursery language


birth control

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birth control
en:Comstock Law
en:Margaret Sanger
en:The Woman Rebel

Margaret Sanger coined the term "birth control" in 1914, using it in the July 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel, and was criminally indicted for it in August 1914, under the Comstock Law for obscenity in print.

Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.

izeeʼ bichįʼ doo ichį́į́ dahí

voluntary control of the number of children conceived

BC

BC; birth control; US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as or due to their unattractiveness

Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).


pregnancy

en-noun

pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pregnancies)

pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy

The period of time this condition prevails.


expect

en-verb

expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)

expects (present singular third-person)
expecting (participle present)
expected (participle past)
expected (past)

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

when you least expect it

I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.

He never expected to be discovered.

We ended up waiting a little longer than we had expected

The doctor said he expected me to make a full recovery.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

And temperatures are expected to keep rising.

2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:

(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen

تَوَقَّعَ

to look for, look forward to, anticipate

England expects that every man will do his duty.

1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar

I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.

2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49:

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller:

(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.


CVS

en-noun

CVS (countable and uncountable, plural CVSs)

chorionic villus sampling
chorionic villus sampling#English

(obstetrics, pathology) Initialism of chorionic villus sampling.


babka

Inherited from Old Polish ka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

(forging) small anvil for striking a scythe or a sickle

Pyrus communis
Pyrus communis#Translingual


moașă

moașe (plural)
moașă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
moașa (accusative definite nominative singular)
moașe (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
moașele (accusative definite nominative plural)
moașe (indefinite singular)
moașei (definite singular)
moașelor (definite plural)
moașă (singular vocative)
moașo (singular vocative)
moașelor (vocative)

Synchronically the feminine of moș, q.v.


preggers

Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets.

2007-07-14, Kyrie O'Connor, “Bluff the Listener”, in Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me, National Public Radio:

(informal) Pregnant; carrying developing offspring within one's body.


up the duff

Unknown; the OED states that the phrase was originally Australian. Possibly related to in the pudding club (duff is a type of pudding) and thus related to dough.

Lynda up the duff—what odds do you put on that, eh, Mr Clever Dick, eh? That's shut his gob. That's put a crease in his brand-new suit.

1987, David Leland, Wish You Were Here, spoken by Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd):

At 19, he was married (‘only because she was up the duff’ he explains gallantly).

1994, The Daily Telegraph, quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, page 88, 2nd edition, 2005:

“Well, when he found out that my gran was up the duff, he went back to his native Norway (or it might have been Sweden)[…].”

1998, Tracey Ullman, Tracey Takes On..., page 98:

It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot.

1998, Irvine Welsh, Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 191:

The great coalface of fuckwits; the fly-by-nighters, who do their five years in Bondi, befriend a Roosters player, get a good coke dealer, meet some tight westie bitch who′s moved here while she works a job in PR, they fall in love, she gets up the duff and then they have to buy a house in Condell Park and they′re gone[…].

2008, Sam de Brito, The Lost Boys, page 14:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, slang) Pregnant.


PBA

partial-birth abortion
partial-birth abortion#English


obstetric

From Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”).

bor

obstetric clinic

For Wenham, the most striking statistic from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, was that from 2013 to 2016, during the outbreak, more women died of obstetric complications than the infectious disease itself.

2020 March 19, Helen Lewis, “The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism”, in The Atlantic:

Of or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy).


obstetrics

ob. (alternative)
obs. (alternative)
obstet. (alternative)
obstetr. (alternative)
obstetricks (alternative)

Coordinate term: gynecology

(medicine) The care of women during and after pregnancy.


dek

deke̩ (masculine)
deke̩ (feminine)
deke̩r (comparative)
dekste̩ (superlative)
dik (alternative)
diek (alternative)

From Middle Dutch dicke, from Old Dutch *thicki, from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).


amniotic fluid embolism

en-noun

amniotic fluid embolism (plural amniotic fluid embolisms)

(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by movement of amniotic fluid past the placenta


knock up

en-verb

knock up (third-person singular simple present knocks up, present participle knocking up, simple past and past participle knocked up)

knocks up (present singular third-person)
knocking up (participle present)
knocked up (participle past)
knocked up (past)

I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.

“And how many other girls has he knocked up?” “Would you keep your voice down? Mom's home.” She pressed her hands to her head. “I just don't understand how you could ditch Rowan and get knocked up by Scott, like, right away.”

2015, Jaime Loren, Waiting for April, Pan, →ISBN:

(slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.


contraceptive

en-adj

contraceptive (comparative more contraceptive, superlative most contraceptive)

more contraceptive (comparative)
most contraceptive (superlative)

Coined in the 20th century from contra- + conceptive; compare the related contraception.

She was careful to take her contraceptive pill at the same time every day.

This has led to the selection of 4-guanidinobenzoates with either acetamenophen or ethylparaben as the phenol moiety for clinical evaluation, because they are orders of magnitude more contraceptive than nonoxynol-9 and less irritating to the vagina.

1994, P. F. A. Van Look, Gregorio Pérez-Palacios, World Health Organization, Contraceptive Research and Development, 1984-1994: The Road from Mexico City to Cairo and Beyond:

That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.


contraceptive

Putting a pig's bladder over one's penis before intercourse is not a good contraceptive.

The document covers the following family planning methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), combined injectable contraceptives (CICs), progestogen-only pills (POPs), depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), norethisterone enantate (NET-EN), levonorgestrel implants, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), copper-bearing interuterine devices, levonorgestrel-releasing interuterine devices (LNG IUDs), fertility awareness-based methods, and sterilization.

2004, Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd edition, World Health Organization:

A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.

супрацьзача́ткавы сро́дак

means by which impregnating a woman can be prevented


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill

1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:

(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

pastilla anticoncepcional / contraceptiva / contraconceptiva


morning-after pill

en-noun

morning-after pill (plural morning-after pills)

Dr. Morris and his colleagues have reported on one experimental compound designed specifically to be a morning-after pill.

1967 October 7, “Estrogens' Double Life”, in Science News, volume 92, number 15, →JSTOR, page 343:

These policy efforts confuse the public into thinking that the morning-after pill, which is simply a super-dose of the regular pill, is the same as mifepristone, the abortion pill.

2010 October 12, Faith Agostinone-Wilson, Marxism and Education Beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling, Palgrave Macmillan, page 172:

Even after a girl has sex, it's not too late to prevent her from dropping an egg. That's what the morning-after pill does.

2013 March 5, Bronwen Pardes, Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex, →ISBN:

A federal judge on Friday ordered that the most common morning-after pill be made available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger.

2013 April 15, Pam Belluck, “Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill”, in The New York Times:

A contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse.


vasectomy

From vas (short for vas deferens) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).

af

short for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">vas deferens</i>

Coordinate term: tubal ligation (analogous procedure for female anatomy)

The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.

2015 July 10, “Abnormal Accumulation of Collagen Type I Due to the Loss of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (Ddr2) Promotes Testicular Interstitial Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.

2019 March 28, Christina Caron, “Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?”, in The New York Times:

Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services.

2022 August 12, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising”, in The New York Times:

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.


umbilical cord

(anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.


episiotomy

/ˌɛpəsaɪˈɒtəmiː/

From episio- + -tomy (“surgical incision”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)).

der

The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.

(medicine) A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.


multiparous

It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Producing several offspring at one time.


loop

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.

(biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.


breech birth

A birth in which the baby comes through the birth canal posterior (buttocks), feet, or knees first, instead of the more usual position of headfirst.

臀位分娩

birth in which the fetus comes feet or knees first


midwife

From Middle English midwif, corresponding to mid (“with”) + wif (“woman, wife, female”). It appears not to be entirely clear whether the original understanding was “with-woman” in the sense of “attending/assisting woman”, or “they who are with the woman” (namely the mother).

促成者

person who assists in bringing something about

A hundred years ago, a midwife would bring the baby into the world - going to a hospital to deliver a baby was either impossible or unheard of.

The senior midwife confirmed that […] occasionally a multigravid woman could feel little more than slight abdominal discomfort.

2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 235:

Despite Richard's efforts to midwive his own narrative of legitimacy, the source of this legendary one cannot be controlled because it has moved from the mouths of nurses, midwives and gossips into the public domain.

2017, Caroline Bicks, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England, page 123:

(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.


stillborn

From English still + born. First attested in 1597.

This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.

1859, Charles Reade, chapter 11, in Love Me Little, Love Me Long:

His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.

1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 18, in The Highgrader:

(figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.

doodgeboren

ignored, without influence, unsuccessful, abortive


scrape

en-noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

cog

1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,
It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232:

The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 236:

17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer,, →ISBN, page 16:

(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.


moder

enm-noun

moder (plural modres or moders or moder or (Kent) modren, genitive modres or moders or moder)

modres (plural)
moders (plural)
moder (plural)
modren (Kent plural)
modres (genitive)
moders (genitive)
moder (genitive)
mother (alternative)
modere (alternative)
modre (alternative)
modir (alternative)
modyr (alternative)
mooder (alternative)
modder (alternative)
modire (alternative)
modyre (alternative)
modur (alternative)
moodur (alternative)
moderr (alternative)

desctree

English: mother, mither (Scotland and Northern England)
Australian Kriol: motha
→ Japanese: マザー (mazā)
→ Korean: 마더 (madeo)

desc

Scots: mither, medder, midder, moder, moeder (Shetland), mideer, mother

Yola: moodher, moother, moothar

Inherited from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare moddrie.

A mother; the female direct ancestor of someone or some creature.

The indirect female ancestor of someone or some creature.

A woman who performs the duties of a mother; a female caretaker or guardian.

A woman who heads a female monastic community; an abbess.


scumbag

From scum + bag; first use appears c. 1967.

“A scumbag,” Sonny repeated. “Rubber. A pro-phy-natic. You know what I mean, don't you?”


get into trouble

en-verb

get into trouble (third-person singular simple present gets into trouble, present participle getting into trouble, simple past got into trouble, past participle (UK) got into trouble or (US) gotten into trouble)

gets into trouble (present singular third-person)
getting into trouble (participle present)
got into trouble (past)
got into trouble (UK participle past)
gotten into trouble (US participle past)

You'll get us all into trouble if you don't keep quiet.


Kondom

de-noun

Kondom n (strong, genitive Kondoms, plural Kondome)

Kondoms (genitive)
Kondome (plural)
Kondom (nominative singular)
Kondome (definite nominative plural)
Kondoms (genitive singular)
Kondome (definite genitive plural)
Kondom (dative singular)
Kondomen (dative definite plural)
Kondom (accusative singular)
Kondome (accusative definite plural)


jimmy

*
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.

We moved to the futon and started fooling around. He rolled on a jimmy and I sat on top of him.

1999, Amy Sohn, Run Catch Kiss, Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 111:

"The next time you hook up with somebody," Lovie was saying, "you better wear a jimmy, boy. With spermicide on it. […]

2004, Murad Kalam, Night Journey, Simon & Schuster, published 2004, →ISBN, page 158:


conception

en-noun

conception (countable and uncountable, plural conceptions)

From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive.


conception

Inherited from Old French conception, concepcion, borrowed from Latin conceptiōnem (“comprehension, understanding”).


johnny

Alternative letter-case form of Johnny, diminutive of John.

toilet

place or device for urination and defecation


mooncalf

mooncalves (plural)
moon-calf (alternative)

From moon + calf, after a superstition that the moon caused abnormal fetal development.

Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

(now rare) An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.


spermicidal

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By surface analysis, sperm + -i- + -cide + -al.


midwifery

en-noun

midwifery (countable and uncountable, plural midwiferies)

midwiferies (plural)
midwivery (alternative)

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From Middle English medewifry; equivalent to midwife + -ery.

The practice and science of being a midwife.

قَبَالَة

the practice and science of being a midwife


abortti

abortti (nominative singular)
abortit (nominative plural)
abortti (accusative nominative singular)
abortit (accusative nominative plural)
abortin (accusative genitive singular)
abortit (accusative genitive plural)
abortin (genitive singular)
aborttien (genitive plural)
aborttia (partitive singular)
abortteja (partitive plural)
abortissa (inessive singular)
aborteissa (inessive plural)
abortista (elative singular)
aborteista (elative plural)
aborttiin (illative singular)
abortteihin (illative plural)
abortilla (adessive singular)
aborteilla (adessive plural)
abortilta (ablative singular)
aborteilta (ablative plural)
abortille (allative singular)
aborteille (allative plural)
aborttina (essive singular)
abortteina (essive plural)
abortiksi (singular translative)
aborteiksi (plural translative)
abortitta (abessive singular)
aborteitta (abessive plural)
abortein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
aborttini (nominative singular)
aborttini (nominative plural)
aborttini (accusative nominative singular)
aborttini (accusative nominative plural)
aborttini (accusative genitive singular)
aborttini (accusative genitive plural)
aborttini (genitive singular)
aborttieni (genitive plural)
aborttiani (partitive singular)
aborttejani (partitive plural)
abortissani (inessive singular)
aborteissani (inessive plural)
abortistani (elative singular)
aborteistani (elative plural)
aborttiini (illative singular)
abortteihini (illative plural)
abortillani (adessive singular)
aborteillani (adessive plural)
abortiltani (ablative singular)
aborteiltani (ablative plural)
abortilleni (allative singular)
aborteilleni (allative plural)
aborttinani (essive singular)
abortteinani (essive plural)
abortikseni (singular translative)
aborteikseni (plural translative)
abortittani (abessive singular)
aborteittani (abessive plural)
abortteineni (comitative plural)
aborttisi (nominative singular)
aborttisi (nominative plural)
aborttisi (accusative nominative singular)
aborttisi (accusative nominative plural)
aborttisi (accusative genitive singular)
aborttisi (accusative genitive plural)
aborttisi (genitive singular)
aborttiesi (genitive plural)
aborttiasi (partitive singular)
aborttejasi (partitive plural)
abortissasi (inessive singular)
aborteissasi (inessive plural)
abortistasi (elative singular)
aborteistasi (elative plural)
aborttiisi (illative singular)
abortteihisi (illative plural)
abortillasi (adessive singular)
aborteillasi (adessive plural)
abortiltasi (ablative singular)
aborteiltasi (ablative plural)
abortillesi (allative singular)
aborteillesi (allative plural)
aborttinasi (essive singular)
abortteinasi (essive plural)
abortiksesi (singular translative)
aborteiksesi (plural translative)
abortittasi (abessive singular)
aborteittasi (abessive plural)
abortteinesi (comitative plural)
aborttimme (nominative singular)
aborttimme (nominative plural)
aborttimme (accusative nominative singular)
aborttimme (accusative nominative plural)
aborttimme (accusative genitive singular)
aborttimme (accusative genitive plural)
aborttimme (genitive singular)
aborttiemme (genitive plural)
aborttiamme (partitive singular)
aborttejamme (partitive plural)
abortissamme (inessive singular)
aborteissamme (inessive plural)
abortistamme (elative singular)
aborteistamme (elative plural)
aborttiimme (illative singular)
abortteihimme (illative plural)
abortillamme (adessive singular)
aborteillamme (adessive plural)
abortiltamme (ablative singular)
aborteiltamme (ablative plural)
abortillemme (allative singular)
aborteillemme (allative plural)
aborttinamme (essive singular)
abortteinamme (essive plural)
abortiksemme (singular translative)
aborteiksemme (plural translative)
abortittamme (abessive singular)
aborteittamme (abessive plural)
abortteinemme (comitative plural)
aborttinne (nominative singular)
aborttinne (nominative plural)
aborttinne (accusative nominative singular)
aborttinne (accusative nominative plural)
aborttinne (accusative genitive singular)
aborttinne (accusative genitive plural)
aborttinne (genitive singular)
aborttienne (genitive plural)
aborttianne (partitive singular)
aborttejanne (partitive plural)
abortissanne (inessive singular)
aborteissanne (inessive plural)
abortistanne (elative singular)
aborteistanne (elative plural)
aborttiinne (illative singular)
abortteihinne (illative plural)
abortillanne (adessive singular)
aborteillanne (adessive plural)
abortiltanne (ablative singular)
aborteiltanne (ablative plural)
abortillenne (allative singular)
aborteillenne (allative plural)
aborttinanne (essive singular)
abortteinanne (essive plural)
abortiksenne (singular translative)
aborteiksenne (plural translative)
abortittanne (abessive singular)
aborteittanne (abessive plural)
abortteinenne (comitative plural)
aborttinsa (nominative singular)
aborttinsa (nominative plural)
aborttinsa (accusative nominative singular)
aborttinsa (accusative nominative plural)
aborttinsa (accusative genitive singular)
aborttinsa (accusative genitive plural)
aborttinsa (genitive singular)
aborttiensa (genitive plural)
aborttiaan (partitive singular)
aborttiansa (partitive singular)
aborttejaan (partitive plural)
aborttejansa (partitive plural)
abortissaan (inessive singular)
abortissansa (inessive singular)
aborteissaan (inessive plural)
aborteissansa (inessive plural)
abortistaan (elative singular)
abortistansa (elative singular)
aborteistaan (elative plural)
aborteistansa (elative plural)
aborttiinsa (illative singular)
abortteihinsa (illative plural)
abortillaan (adessive singular)
abortillansa (adessive singular)
aborteillaan (adessive plural)
aborteillansa (adessive plural)
abortiltaan (ablative singular)
abortiltansa (ablative singular)
aborteiltaan (ablative plural)
aborteiltansa (ablative plural)
abortilleen (allative singular)
abortillensa (allative singular)
aborteilleen (allative plural)
aborteillensa (allative plural)
aborttinaan (essive singular)
aborttinansa (essive singular)
abortteinaan (essive plural)
abortteinansa (essive plural)
abortikseen (singular translative)
abortiksensa (singular translative)
aborteikseen (plural translative)
aborteiksensa (plural translative)
abortittaan (abessive singular)
abortittansa (abessive singular)
aborteittaan (abessive plural)
aborteittansa (abessive plural)
abortteineen (comitative plural)
abortteinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Swedish abort, ultimately from Latin abortiō.

(medicine) abortion, induced abortion (procedure that terminates pregnancy by removing the fetus)


IUD

IUD (countable and uncountable, plural IUDs)

The Philippine sense is due to the streetfood being reminiscent of an intrauterine device.

(Philippines, informal) barbecued chicken intestine, sold as street food


abortus

Borrowed from New Latin abortus (“miscarriage”). Doublet of abort.

bor+

An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.


abortus

Borrowed from Dutch abortus, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle from aborior (“pass away; miscarry”), from ab (“from, away from”) + orior (“rise, get up; appear”). Doublet of aborsi.

(obstetrics) abortus; abortion: the expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion (see Indonesian aborsi).


antenatal

From Latin ante (“before”) + nātālis (“natal”), from nāscor (“to be born”), equivalent to ante- + natal.


antenatal

es-adj

antenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural antenatales)


anti-abortion

en-adj

anti-abortion (comparative more anti-abortion, superlative most anti-abortion)

more anti-abortion (comparative)
most anti-abortion (superlative)


haven

haven (infinitive)
to haven (infinitive)
have (infinitive)
han (infinitive)
ha (infinitive)
have (first-person present singular)
ha (first-person present singular)
hadde (first-person past singular)
haved (first-person past singular)
havest (present second-person singular)
hast (present second-person singular)
haddest (past second-person singular)
havedest (past second-person singular)
haveth (present singular third-person)
hath (present singular third-person)
hadde (past singular third-person)
haved (past singular third-person)
have (present singular subjunctive)
ha (present singular subjunctive)
hadde (past singular subjunctive)
haved (past singular subjunctive)
have (imperative present singular)
ha (imperative present singular)
haven (plural present)
have (plural present)
han (plural present)
ha (plural present)
hadden (past plural)
hadde (past plural)
haveden (past plural)
havede (past plural)
haveth (imperative plural present)
have (imperative plural present)
ha (imperative plural present)
havynge (participle present)
havende (participle present)
had (participle past)
haved (participle past)
yhad (participle past)
yhaved (participle past)
have (alternative)
haav (alternative)
haf (alternative)
hafe (alternative)
haben (alternative)
habben (alternative)
heven (alternative)
hawe (alternative)
han (alternative)
haan (alternative)
ha (alternative)

From Old English habban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

to get, acquire, or obtain:
to have (a child); to give birth


miso

I’m here to look for a small, white, hexagonal pill called misoprostol. Also known as miso or Cytotec, the drug induces an abortion that appears like a miscarriage during the early stages of a woman’s pregnancy. For women living in Latin America and other countries that have traditionally outlawed abortion, miso has been a lifeline […]

2014 June 27, Erica Hellerstein, “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas”, in The Atlantic:

Now a year later, as the courts consider the fate of mifepristone and abortion providers gird for the possibility of a miso-only protocol, Cristina says that she’s grateful she was able to end her unwanted pregnancy, although she knows not everyone has access to the same resources […]

2023 July 31, Sara Hutchinson, “Having an Abortion at Home? There’s a Hotline for That”, in Cosmopolitan:

(pharmacology, informal) Clipping of misoprostol.


pull out

en-verb

pull out (third-person singular simple present pulls out, present participle pulling out, simple past and past participle pulled out)

pulls out (present singular third-person)
pulling out (participle present)
pulled out (participle past)
pulled out (past)

Shortly before you ejaculate, you can pull out and use your hand (or hers) to push yourself over the edge. Some of my patients claim this is a more natural method of birth control[…]

2006, David J. Clayton, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living: How to Survive Your Bad Habits, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:

She'd long since caught the knack of moving with him, and closed her arms and legs around him. “You'll fly with me, Tiberius? Take the last fence with me?” He'd meant to pull out. Coitus interruptus was a term even the scholars failing their Latin knew before they left public school.

2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:

(literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.

عَزَلَ

to use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control


bær

bært (neuter)
bære (definite plural singular)
bærare (comparative)
bærast (indefinite superlative)
bæraste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse bærr, from Proto-Germanic *bēriz. Doublet of -bar.

(chiefly of cattle) about to calve, or which recently has calved

(more generally, or in compounds) carrying


Gummi

de-noun

Gummi m or n (strong, genitive Gummis, plural Gummis or (chiefly southern) Gummi)

Gummis (genitive)
Gummis (plural)
Gummi (Southern plural)
Gummi (definite nominative singular)
Gummis (definite nominative plural)
Gummi (definite nominative plural)
Gummis (genitive singular)
Gummis (definite genitive plural)
Gummi (definite genitive plural)
Gummi (dative singular)
Gummis (dative definite plural)
Gummi (dative definite plural)
Gummi (accusative definite singular)
Gummis (accusative definite plural)
Gummi (accusative definite plural)

→ Hebrew: גומי (gúmi)

From Middle High German gummi (13th c.), from Medieval Latin gummi, byform of older cummi(s), which see.


mother-to-be

mothers-to-be (plural)
mother to be (alternative)

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The ideal position for a back massage for the mother-to-be is to sit astride a chair supported by cushions.

2000, Allison England, Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby, Healing Arts Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 52:

A pregnant woman, especially one expecting her first child.


Lamaze

Natural childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.


D and C

en-noun

D and C (countable and uncountable, plural D and Cs)

dilation and curettage
dilation and curettage#English


dilation and curettage

(medicine) A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet.


роды

ru-noun+

ро́ды • (ródy) m inan pl (genitive ро́дов, plural only)

ро́ды (canonical)
ródy (romanization)
ро́дов (genitive)
ро́ды (nominative plural)
ро́дов (genitive plural)
ро́дам (dative plural)
ро́ды (accusative plural)
ро́дами (instrumental plural)
ро́дах (plural prepositional)


water birth

water births (plural)
waterbirth (alternative)

(obstetrics) A form of childbirth in which the mother is supported in a birthing pool so that the child is delivered into the warm water.


coitus interruptus

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From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + interruptus (“interrupted, cut short”), the perfect passive participle of interrumpo (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Yet in the event, population continued to grow – even though signs began to appear that coitus interruptus was beginning to be used systematically to reduce family size.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 351:

We have come some way since sheep's bladder condoms but male contraceptive options are still pretty basic. Not counting one Chinese invention - a small electronic device worn in the underpants, which causes infertility for a month after a current is switched on briefly - it is still down to the old favourites: abstinence, coitus interruptus, condoms or vasectomy.

2003 October 7, Lucy Atkins, “Men on the pill? Yeah, right”, in The Guardian:

[2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:

Sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis before ejaculation.

體外射精 /体外射精

sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis


coitus interruptus

coitus interruptus
coitus interruptus#English


coitus interruptus

Borrowed from Latin coitus interruptus (literally “sexual intercourse interrupted”), from coeō (“to meet, to have sex”) and interrumpō (“to interrupt, to cut short”).


lying-in

en-noun

lying-in (plural lying-ins or lyings-in)

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from our first knowing each other, which was soon after my lying-in, we were almost inseparable companions […]

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 404:

The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.