surgerie
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French surgerie; a modification of surgie, from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of cirurgie. Almost all forms have been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
surgerie (uncountable)
- surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)
Descendants[edit]
- English: surgery
References[edit]
- “cirurǧīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.