surgerie
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French surgerie; a modification of surgie, from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of cirurgie. Almost all forms have been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsurgerie (uncountable)
- surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)
Descendants
edit- English: surgery
References
edit- “cirurǧīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.