cou.vade

couvade的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ku:ˈvɑ:d]
KK音标发音： [kuˈvɑd]

couvade的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A practice in certain non-Western cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child.
拟娩，假分娩：一些非西方文化中的习俗，丈夫在其妻子分娩时卧床，好象他也在分娩

couvade的词源：

2. French
法语

3. from Old French
源自 古法语

4. from couver [to incubate, hatch]
源自 couver [卵，孵出]

5. from Latin cub3re [to lie down on]
源自 拉丁语 cub3re [躺在…上]