surgerie

Middle English

Alternative forms

surgerye, surgery, sorgerye
(non-remodelled) ciurgie, siurgie, surgye

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French surgerie; a modification of surgie, from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of surgerie. 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

IPA^(key): /ˈsurdʒɛriː(ə)/
(rare) IPA^(key): /ˈsurdʒiː(ə)/

Noun

surgerie (uncountable)

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

Descendants

English: surgery

References

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

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