Definition of PRIMIPARA

primipara

Meanings

Plural: primiparae, primiparas

Noun

  • (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
  • A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
  • A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

para I, primigravid, primigravida, primip

Scrabble Score: 15

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Words With Friends Score: 18

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