neonate
noun/ˈniːəʊneɪt/
/ˈniːəʊneɪt/
(medical)- a baby that has recently been born, especially within the last four weeksTopics Life stagesc2Word Origin1930s: from modern Latin neonatus, from Greek neos ‘new’ + Latin nat- ‘born’ (from the verb nasci).
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