χειρουργία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χειρουργίη (kheirourgíē) — Ionic
Etymology
From χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō, “to work with the hands”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰeː.ruːr.ɡí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰi.rurˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çi.rurˈʝi.a/
Noun
χειρουργῐ́ᾱ • (kheirourgĭ́ā) f (genitive χειρουργῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- working by hand, practice of a handicraft or art
- handicraft or art, especially surgery
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ hē kheirourgĭ́ā |
τὼ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ kheirourgĭ́ā |
αἱ χειρουργῐ́αι hai kheirourgĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χειρουργῐ́ᾱς tês kheirourgĭ́ās |
τοῖν χειρουργῐ́αιν toîn kheirourgĭ́ain |
τῶν χειρουργῐῶν tôn kheirourgĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χειρουργῐ́ᾳ tēî kheirourgĭ́āi |
τοῖν χειρουργῐ́αιν toîn kheirourgĭ́ain |
ταῖς χειρουργῐ́αις taîs kheirourgĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χειρουργῐ́ᾱν tḕn kheirourgĭ́ān |
τὼ χειρουργῐ́ᾱ tṑ kheirourgĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς χειρουργῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kheirourgĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χειρουργῐ́ᾱ kheirourgĭ́ā |
χειρουργῐ́ᾱ kheirourgĭ́ā |
χειρουργῐ́αι kheirourgĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Descendants
- → Latin: chīrūrgia (see there for further descendants)
- → Welsh: llawdriniaeth (calque)
Further reading
- “χειρουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χειρουργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χειρουργία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette