bistouri

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pistorese or pistorino (“from Pistoia”, see Latin Pistōrium); the city of Pistoia was once famous for the manufacturing of blades. Doublet of pistoïen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis.tu.ʁi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i

Noun

bistouri m (plural bistouris)

1. (surgery) bistoury, scalpel, surgical knife

Descendants

• → Albanian: bisturi
• → Catalan: bisturí
• → Dutch: bistouri
  • → Indonesian: bisturi
• → English: bistoury
• → Esperanto: bisturio
• → Italian: bisturi
• → Romanian: bisturiu
• → Spanish: bisturí
• → Turkish: bisturi

Further reading

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