accoucheur

English

Etymology

Attested since 1727. 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.kuˈʃɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kuˈʃɜː/

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Noun

accoucheur (plural accoucheurs)

1. (medicine) A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
   • 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:

     And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.

   • 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

Coordinate terms

• accoucheuse

Derived terms

• accoucheurship

Related terms

• collocation
• couch

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, sage-homme (fr) 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

French

Etymology

From accoucher +‎ -eur.

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: акуше́р (akušér)

Further reading

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