primipara

Meaning

Noun

• A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
• A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin prīmipara ("pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous"), from prīmus + parere (from pariō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- ("to carry forth")). The word is cognate with French primipare.