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puerperal (adj.)
1768, with
-al
(1) + Latin
puerperus
"bringing forth children; bearing a child" (as a noun, "woman in labor"), from
puer
"child, boy" (see
puerility
) +
parere
"to bear" (see
pare
). Earlier
puerperial
(1620s).
