Word: afterpain
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: af
ter
pain
Definition: pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of the placenta)
Morphemes:
Affix: after-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: With adverbial or adjectival effect, forming compound words indicating something that comes afterwards in spacial position or time.
Affix: pain
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: poena
Language: la
Decoded: poena
Meaning: punishment, pain