χειρουργία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χειρουργίη (kheirourgíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō, “to work with the hands”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰeː.ruːr.ɡí.aː/ → /çi.rurˈʝi.a/ → /çi.rurˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰeː.ruːr.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰi.rurˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/

Noun

χειρουργῐ́ᾱ • (kheirourgíā) f (genitive χειρουργῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. working by hand, practice of a handicraft or art

   Antonyms: γνώμη (gnṓmē), γνῶσις (gnôsis)

2. handicraft or art, especially surgery

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ; τῆς χειρουργῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ hē kheirourgíā	τὼ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ kheirourgíā	αἱ χειρουργῐ́αι hai kheirourgíai
Genitive	τῆς χειρουργῐ́ᾱς tês kheirourgíās	τοῖν χειρουργῐ́αιν toîn kheirourgíain	τῶν χειρουργῐῶν tôn kheirourgiôn
Dative	τῇ χειρουργῐ́ᾳ têi kheirourgíāi	τοῖν χειρουργῐ́αιν toîn kheirourgíain	ταῖς χειρουργῐ́αις taîs kheirourgíais
Accusative	τὴν χειρουργῐ́ᾱν tḕn kheirourgíān	τὼ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ kheirourgíā	τᾱ̀ς χειρουργῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kheirourgíās
Vocative	χειρουργῐ́ᾱ kheirourgíā	χειρουργῐ́ᾱ kheirourgíā	χειρουργῐ́αι kheirourgíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• χειρουργός (kheirourgós)

Descendants

• → Latin: chīrūrgia (see there for further descendants)
• → Welsh: llawdriniaeth (calque)

Further reading

• “χειρουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χειρουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χειρουργία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette