Daily Ancestorpuerpera
Puerpera is Latin for a woman in childbed, one in labor or recently delivered of a child.
Puerpera joins puer (child) and pario (to bear). Wiktionary gives woman in labor, woman in childbed and lying-in woman.
In a burial entry, puerpera beside a woman's name means she died in or soon after childbirth. Look for the baptism or burial of a child a few days earlier.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Austria, 1810s
Sepulta est Elisabetha Lessauer, puerpera, annorum 29
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Daily Ancestor. "puerpera." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/puerpera. Last checked 2026-10-12.