The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromfistula“pipe, ulcer, catheter”
- English todayfistula
Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”). Doublet of fester.
Words from the same roots
Latinfistula all →
festerfistularioidfistularyfistulo-fistuloenterostomy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.