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Vinony

pregnant

adjective

  1. of someone undergoing pregnancy
  2. to make pregnant, full with, full with (child)
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/ / /ˈpɹeɪ̯ɡnənt/

adj

Etymology: Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

  1. Compelling; clear, evident.

    “Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

  1. A pregnant person.

    “The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement”