birth
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder.
Proto-Germanic *burþiz
Old Norse burðrbor.
Middle English birthe
English birth
From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.
Base: bear
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: births
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: births
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: birthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: birthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: birthed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance of childbirth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
In Greece a child was given its name on the seventh or tenth day after birth.
gloss: A beginning or start; a point of origin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the birth of an empire
gloss: The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.
without reference to birth, but solely for their qualifications
Lucy […] had no fortune, which, though a minor evil, was an evil; and she had no birth, in the high-life sense of the word, which was a greater evil.
gloss: That which is born.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That poets are far rarer births than kings.
Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.
gloss: A familial relationship established by childbirth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
gloss: To bear or give birth to (a child).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!
Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.
She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”
gloss: To produce, give rise to.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.
Antonyms: death
Related words: bear
born
Derived words: AFAB
AMAB
antibirth
birf
birth-assigned
birth canal
birth cert
birth-certificate
birth certificate
birth chair
birth chart
birthchild
birth control
birth control glasses
birth date
birth defect
birthdom
birther
birthfamily
birthfather
birth father
birthfeast
birthgasm
birthgiver
birthhome
birthhood
birth hour
birthhouse
birthland
birthless
birthline
birthmark
birthmate
birth month
birthmother
birth name
birthnight
birth pang
birthparent
birth plan
birthquake
birthroot
birth sex
birth sin
birthsite
birthstead
birthstool
birth stool
birthtide
birth time
birthtime
birth tongue
birth-tongue
birthtongue
birth-to-potty
birth-to-potty diaper
birth-to-potty nappy
birth tourist
birth tray
birth weight
birthweight
birthwise
birthwort
birthy
coffin birth
cross-birth
crude birth rate
date of birth
fraternal birth-order effect
fraternal birth order effect
freebirth
give birth
home birth
homebirth
inbirth
interbirth
live birth
livebirth
lotus birth
misbirth
multibirth
multiple birth
natural birth
nonbirth
outbirth
partial-birth abortion
place of birth
postbirth
prebirth
premature birth
pro-birth
rebirth
starbirth
stillbirth
traditional birth attendant
twilight birth
unbirth
vaginal birth
watch-birth
water birth
wrongful birth
accident of birth
afterbirth
birthdate
birthday
birthing
birth mother
birth pangs
birth parent
birth pill
birthplace
birthrate
birth rate
birthright
birthstone
birth tourism
birthyear
breech birth
crossbirth
forebirth
gainbirth
noble birth
virgin birth
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