acupunctura

• acuum pūnctūra

Coined by 17th-century Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne in 1683, from acus (“needle”) +‎ pūnctūra (“puncture”).

• acūpūnctūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kuː.puːŋkˈtuː.ra]
• acūpūnctūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ku.puŋkˈt̪uː.ra]
• acūpūnctūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kuː.puːŋkˈtuː.raː]
• acūpūnctūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ku.puŋkˈt̪uː.ra]

acūpūnctūra f (genitive acūpūnctūrae); first declension (New Latin)

1. acupuncture

   Synonym: stylostixis

   • 1683, Willem ten Rhijne, “Epilogus”, in Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura: Et Orationes Tres, London: R. Chiswell, page 188:

     Haec sunt quae de acupunctura, Europaeis incognita, ex Japonum monumentis & doctrina expiscari, et, non sine multis impensis, communicare, potui […]

     These are what concern acupuncture, unknown to Europeans, that I have been able to fish from the records and teachings of the Japanese and, not without many expenses, share.

First-declension noun.

• → English: acupuncture
• → French: acupuncture, acuponcture (post-1990 spelling)
  • → Turkish: akupunktur

acupunctura f (plural acupuncturas)

1. alternative spelling of acupuntura