cathéter
See also: catheter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καθετήρ (kathetḗr, “surgical instrument for emptying the bladder”), from καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to descend, let down”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, “suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs”) (from Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr (“suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone or something whose role or purpose it is to perform the verb's action”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
cathéter m (plural cathéters)
Further reading
- “cathéter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.