accoucheur

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.

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

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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.

• (male) midwife, man-midwife

• accoucheuse

• midwife
• obstetrician
• obstetrics

• IPA^(key): /a.ku.ʃœʁ/

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accoucheur m (plural accoucheurs, feminine accoucheuse)

1. midwife (male)
2. obstetrician

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

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