forceps
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːsɛps/, /ˈfɔːsəps/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoɹsɛps/
- (without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/
Noun[edit]
forceps (plural forceps or forcipes or forcepses)
- An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
Usage notes[edit]
Although the Latin word is singular, this word is often treated as a plurale tantum by analogy with names for similar items such as tongs and tweezers: this forceps or these forceps (or even pair of forceps).
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
instrument used in surgery
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Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
forceps m (plural forceps)
Further reading[edit]
- “forceps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *formokaps through syncope. By surface analysis, formus (“warm”) + -ceps (“taker”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.keps/, [ˈfɔrkɛps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈfɔrt͡ʃeps]
Noun[edit]
forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | forceps | forcipēs |
Genitive | forcipis | forcipum |
Dative | forcipī | forcipibus |
Accusative | forcipem | forcipēs |
Ablative | forcipe | forcipibus |
Vocative | forceps | forcipēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forceps in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- forceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “forceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “forceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
forceps n (plural forcepsuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of forceps
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) forceps | forcepsul | (niște) forcepsuri | forcepsurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) forceps | forcepsului | (unor) forcepsuri | forcepsurilor |
vocative | forcepsule | forcepsurilor |
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