amputation

See also: Amputation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amputation, borrowed from Latin amputātiō (“pruning (of a tree)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

amputation (countable and uncountable, plural amputations)

1. surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
2. the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

Derived terms

• Ewing amputation

 

Translations

surgical removal of a limb

• Afrikaans: amputasie
• Arabic: بَتْر (ar) m (batr), قَطْع (ar) m (qaṭʕ)
• Armenian: անդամահատում (hy) (andamahatum), անդամահատություն (hy) (andamahatutʻyun)
• Belarusian: ампута́цыя f (amputácyja)
• Bulgarian: ампута́ция (bg) f (amputácija)
• Catalan: amputació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截肢 (zh) (jiézhī), 切斷／切断 (zh) (qiēduàn)

• Czech: amputace (cs) f
• Dutch: amputatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: amputado
• Finnish: amputaatio (fi)
• French: amputation (fr) f
• Galician: amputación (gl) f
• Georgian: ამპუტაცია (amṗuṭacia)
• German: Amputation (de) f
• Greek: ακρωτηριασμός (el) m (akrotiriasmós)

  Ancient: ἀποκοπή f (apokopḗ)

• Haitian Creole: anpitasyon
• Hebrew: כריתה f (krita)
• Hungarian: amputálás (hu)
• Icelandic: aflimun f
• Indonesian: amputasi (id)
• Irish: teascadh
• Italian: amputazione (it) f
• Japanese: 切断 (ja) (せつだん, setsudan)
• Korean: 절단(切斷) (ko) (jeoldan) / 절단(截斷) (ko) (jeoldan)
• Macedonian: ампутација f (amputacija)
• Malayalam: അംഗച്ഛേദനം (aṅgacchēdanaṁ)
• Maori: poronga, pōutonga
• Navajo: atsʼáozʼaʼ kʼégéésh
• Polish: amputacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: amputação (pt) f
• Romanian: amputare (ro) f, amputație (ro) f
• Russian: ампута́ция (ru) f (amputácija)
• Sardinian:

  Gallurese Sardinian: mutzatura

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ампутација f

  Roman: amputacija (sh) f

• Slovak: amputácia (sk) f
• Slovene: amputacija f
• Spanish: amputación (es) f
• Swedish: amputation (sv)
• Tagalog: paggapong
• Turkish: ampütasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ампута́ція (uk) f (amputácija)
• Welsh: trychiad m
• West Frisian: amputaasje

loss of limb

• Maori: poronga
• Portuguese: amputação (pt) f
• Tagalog: pagkagapong

See also

• acrotomophilia
• apotemnophilia
• apotemnophobia
• dismemberment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin amputātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: amputations

Noun

amputation f (plural amputations)

1. amputation

Related terms

• amputer

Descendants

• → Romanian: amputație
• → Turkish: ampütasyon

Further reading

• “amputation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.