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): /sirurˈd͡ʒiː(ə)/, /siˈrurd͡ʒiː(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.

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