cirurgie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cirurgy, cyrurgie, sirurgerye

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cirurgie, borrowed itself from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of surgerie. At least one form has been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sirurˈdʒiː(ə)/, /siˈrurdʒiː(ə)/

Noun

cirurgie (uncountable)

1. surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)

Descendants

• English: chirurgy (altered after Latin and Greek)

References

• “cirurǧīe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.