acupunctura

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.

Proto-Italic *akus

Latin acus

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin pūnctūra

Latin acupunctura

Coined by 17th-century Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne in 1683, from acus (“needle”) +‎ pūnctūra (“puncture”).

acūpūnctūra:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kuː.puːŋkˈtuː.ra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ku.puŋkˈtuː.ra]
acūpūnctūrā:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kuː.puːŋkˈtuː.raː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ku.puŋkˈtuː.ra]

acūpūnctūra f (genitive acūpūnctūrae); first declension (New Latin)

acupuncture
Synonym: stylostixis
- 1683, Willem ten Rhijne, “Epilogus”, in Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura: Et Orationes Tres, London: R. Chiswell, page 188:
  Haec sunt quae de acupunctura, Europaeis incognita, ex Japonum monumentis & doctrina expiscari, et, non sine multis impensis, communicare, potui […]
  These are what concern acupuncture, unknown to Europeans, that I have been able to fish from the records and teachings of the Japanese and, not without many expenses, share.

acupunctura f (usually uncountable, plural acupuncturas)