accoucheur
- 英式英标[,ækʊ\'ʃɝ]
- 美式音标[,ækuː\'ʃɜː]
英文词源
- accoucheur (n.)
- 1759, "midwife" (properly, "male midwife"), from French accoucheur (Jules Clément, later 17c.), agent noun from accoucher "to go to childbed, be delivered" (13c.) originally simply "to lie down" (12c.), from Old French culcher "to lie," from Latin collocare, from com- "with" (see com-) + locare "to place" (see locate). The fem. is accoucheuse (1847).