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parteira.

midwife (person who assists in childbirth)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/paʁˈte(j).ɾɐ/Brazil[pahˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]Brazil/paɾˈte(j).ɾɐ/São-Paulo[paɾˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]São-Paulo

  1. midwife (person who assists in childbirth)

    feminine

  2. female equivalent of parteiro

    feminine · form-of
Where this word comes from

From parto (“birth; delivery”) + -eira (“-eer”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parto, from Latin partus (“birth”), from pariō (“to bring forth, to give birth to, to produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

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