chirurgus

Dutch

Noun

chirurgus m (plural chirurgi)

obsolete spelling of chirurg

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʰiːˈruːr.ɡʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kiˈrur.ɡus]

Noun

chīrūrgus m (genitive chīrūrgī); second declension

surgeon, chirurgeon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	chīrūrgus	chīrūrgī
genitive	chīrūrgī	chīrūrgōrum
dative	chīrūrgō	chīrūrgīs
accusative	chīrūrgum	chīrūrgōs
ablative	chīrūrgō	chīrūrgīs
vocative	chīrūrge	chīrūrgī

Synonyms

medicus
medicus vulnerarius

Related terms

Descendants

Spanish: cirugía
French: chirurgie
- → English: surgery
- → Turkish: şirürji
Italian: chirurgo
→ Dutch: chirurgus
→ German: Chirurg
- → Czech: chirurg
- → Danish: kirurg
- → Dutch: chirurg
  - Afrikaans: chirurg
- → Estonian: kirurg
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kirurg
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kirurg
- → Polish: chirurg
- → Romanian: chirurg
- → Swedish: kirurg
→ Interlingua: chirurgo

References

“chirurgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
chirurgus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.