cirurgie
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cirurgy, cyrurgie, sirurgerye
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French cirurgie, borrowed itself from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of surgerie. At least one form has been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sirurˈdʒiː(ə)/, /siˈrurdʒiː(ə)/
Noun
cirurgie (uncountable)
- surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)
Descendants
- English: chirurgy (altered after Latin and Greek)
References
- “cirurǧīe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.