accoucheur
2 synonyms for accoucheur, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Someone, typically a man, who helps a woman give birth.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Recorded since 1727, accoucheur was borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), formed from con- plus locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement.
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