英语词汇couvade的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	couvade
词源	couvade. The custom among some American Indian tribes in which a father-to-be retires to bed and simulates childbirth. He believes that by doing this he prevents his regular daily ex- ertions from harming the child, that he is magically assisting in the birth of the child, and that the act is “a symbolic assertion of identification of father and child.” Couvade is from the French couver, “to hatch,” which comes from the Latin cubare, “to lie down.”
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