Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

primipara

/pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pri-mi-pa-ra
IPA: /pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.

noun

A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

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.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: prīmipara, *per-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/
British English: /ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Inflected Forms

primiparas (plural) primiparae (plural)

Derived Forms

primip primiparity primiparous

Frequently Paired Words

multip multipara multiparity nullipara nulliparity primigravid primigravida primigravidity

Synonyms

primigravid primigravida primip para i

Antonyms

multigravid multigravida multip multipara

Questions

How do you pronounce primipara?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/.
What does primipara mean?: A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
Where does primipara come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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