autopsia

See also: autópsia and autòpsia

English

Noun

autopsia

1. Archaic form of autopsy.
   • 1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:

     A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.

Anagrams

• autopias

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

autopsia

1. third-person singular past historic of autopsier

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτοψία (autopsía, “seeing with one's own eyes”), derived from αὐτός (autós, “self”) +‎ ὄψις (ópsis, “sight”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /aw.toˈpsi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧psì‧a

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsie)

1. autopsy, post-mortem

Related terms

• autoptico

Further reading

• autopsia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.tuˈpsi.ɐ/ [ˌaʊ̯.tuˈpsi.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.tuˈpsi.ɐ/ [ˌaʊ̯.tuˈpsi.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.toˈpsi.a/ [ˌaʊ̯.toˈpsi.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aw.tɔˈpsi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧top‧si‧a

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

1. (rare, prescriptive) alternative form of autópsia (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Etymology 2

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of autópsia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French autopsier.

Verb

a autopsia (third-person singular present autopsiează, past participle autopsiat) 1st conjugation

1. to autopsy

Conjugation

    conjugation of autopsia (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a autopsia
gerund			autopsiind
past participle			autopsiat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	autopsiez	autopsiezi	autopsiază	autopsiem	autopsiați	autopsiază
	imperfect	autopsiam	autopsiai	autopsia	autopsiam	autopsiați	autopsiau
	simple perfect	autopsiai	autopsiași	autopsie	autopsiarăm	autopsiarăți	autopsiară
	pluperfect	autopsiasem	autopsiaseși	autopsiase	autopsiaserăm	autopsiaserăți	autopsiaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să autopsiez	să autopsiezi	să autopsieze	să autopsiem	să autopsiați	să autopsieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		autopsiază			autopsiați
	negative		nu autopsia			nu autopsiați

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψία (autopsía, “visual exam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /auˈtobsja/ [au̯ˈt̪oβ̞.sja]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -obsja
• Syllabification: au‧top‧sia

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

1. autopsy

Further reading

• “autopsia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024