accoucheur

accoucheur

English

Etymology

Attested since 1759. 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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.ku.ˈʃɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.ku.ˈʃɜː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

accoucheur (plural accoucheurs)

1. (medicine) A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163:

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

Synonyms

• (male) midwife, man-midwife

Related terms

• accoucheuse

Translations

person who assists women in childbirth

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: պապհեր (papher) (humorous), մանկաբարձ (hy) (mankabarj) Burmese: ယောက်ျားလက်သည် Chinese: Mandarin: 男接生员 (nán jiēshēngyuán) Czech: porodní dědek m Dutch: vroedmeester m, vroedman (nl) m Esperanto: akuŝisto (eo) French: sage-femme homme (fr) m, accoucheur (fr) m German: Entbindungspfleger (de) m, Geburtshelfer (de) m, Entbindungshelfer m Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: ostetrico (it) m Japanese: 助産師 (ja) (じょさんし, josanshi) Korean: 산부인과의사 (sanbu'in'gwauisa) Polish: akuszer (pl) m, akuszerka (pl) f Portuguese: parteiro m Romanian: mamoș (ro) m, obstetrician (ro) m Russian: акуше́р (ru) m (akušér) Spanish: matrón Vietnamese: người đỡ đẻ

See also

• midwife
• obstetrician
• obstetrics

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ku.ʃœʁ/

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Noun

accoucheur m (plural accoucheurs, feminine accoucheuse)

1. midwife (male)
2. obstetrician

Descendants

• → English: accoucheur
• → Polish: akuszer
• → Russian: акушер (akušer)

Further reading

• “accoucheur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.