Etymology

chirurgy

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Today it means: surgery Full definition →

Middle English cirurgie ← Old French cirurgie ← Latin chīrurgia
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  1. Latin · derived fromchīrurgia
  2. Old French · derived fromcirurgie
  3. Middle English · inherited fromcirurgie
  4. English todaychirurgy

From Middle English cirurgie, from Old French cirurgie, from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of surgery.

Words from the same roots

Latinchīrurgia all →

surgerysurgeonchirurgeon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.