accoucheuse

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˌækuˈʃɜz/ UK /ˌakuːˈʃəːz/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a female midwife or woman who assists at childbirth

The accoucheuse stayed with the laboring mother through the night.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a female midwife or woman... midwife

Word family

Related forms accoucheur

Etymology

From French accoucheuse, feminine of accoucheur ('one who assists at childbirth'), from accoucher ('to deliver, give birth'), from a- ('to') + coucher ('to lie down'), from Latin collocāre ('to place').

accoucher French collocāre Latin

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# accoucheuse

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˌækuˈʃɜz/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌakuːˈʃəːz/

## Meanings
1. a female midwife or woman who assists at childbirth

## Examples
- The accoucheuse stayed with the laboring mother through the night.

## Synonyms
- midwife

## Related Forms
- accoucheur

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: accoucher
- Root: collocāre

## Etymology
From French accoucheuse, feminine of accoucheur ('one who assists at childbirth'), from accoucher ('to deliver, give birth'), from a- ('to') + coucher ('to lie down'), from Latin collocāre ('to place').

## AI Etymology
accoucheuse comes from French accoucheuse, feminine of accoucheur ('one who assists at childbirth'), from accoucher ('to deliver, give birth'), from a- ('to') + coucher ('to lie down'), from Latin collocāre ('to place'). Morphologically, the word is transparent as a compound: its parts remain visible in the modern spelling, while the older history of those parts supplies the deeper ancestry. In modern use, the noun sense is "a female midwife or woman who assists at childbirth", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as accoucheur, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include French accoucher, Latin collocāre, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

## Topics
- People & Society

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