cirurgie

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

cirurgy, cyrurgie, sirurgerye

Etymology edit

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 edit

IPA^(key): /sirurˈd͡ʒiː(ə)/, /siˈrurd͡ʒiː(ə)/

Noun edit

cirurgie (uncountable)

surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)

Descendants edit

English: chirurgy (altered after Latin and Greek)

References edit

“cirurǧīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.