parteira

From parto +‎ -eiro.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈtejɾa/ [paɾˈt̪ej.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾa
• Hyphenation: par‧tei‧ra

parteira f (plural parteiras)

1. midwife

• parto

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parteira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “parteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parteira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From parto (“birth; delivery”) +‎ -eira (“-eer”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parto, from Latin partus (“birth”), from pariō (“to bring forth, to give birth to, to produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ
• Hyphenation: par‧tei‧ra

parteira f (plural parteiras)

1. midwife (person who assists women in childbirth)
2. female equivalent of parteiro

• parto