primipara

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”),[1] from prīmus (“first”) + parere[2] (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.

Pronunciation

Noun

primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)

  1. (obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy. [from mid 19th c.]
    Synonyms: primigravid, primigravida, primip
    Antonyms: multigravid, multigravida, multip, multipara
  2. (obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
    Synonym: primip
    Antonyms: multip, multipara

Derived terms
Terms related to primipara

Translations
woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — See also translations at primigravida

References
  1. “primipara, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2007.
  2. “primipara” (US) / “primipara” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Further reading

Italian

Noun

primipara f (plural primipare)

  1. primipara, primigravid
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