amputate

English

Etymology

From Latin amputō (“prune, cut away”). The original sense of pruning (a tree, etc.) became obsolete. The OED considers uses related to anything other than an animal limb to be figurative uses of the modern sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmpjʊteɪt/

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Verb

amputate (third-person singular simple present amputates, present participle amputating, simple past and past participle amputated)

1. (obsolete) To cut off, to prune. [17th–18th c.]
2. To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• amputator
• autoamputate

 

Related terms

• amputation (noun)
• amputee (noun)

Translations

to surgically remove a body part

• Arabic: بَتَرَ (ar) (batara)
• Armenian: անդամահատել (hy) (andamahatel)
• Belarusian: ампутава́ць impf or pf (amputavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: ампути́рам (bg) impf or pf (amputíram)
• Catalan: amputar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截肢 (zh) (jiézhī), 切斷／切断 (zh) (qiēduàn)

• Czech: amputovat (cs) impf or pf
• Dutch: afzetten (nl), amputeren (nl)
• Finnish: amputoida (fi)
• French: amputer (fr)
• Galician: amputar
• German: amputieren (de)
• Greek: ακρωτηριάζω (el) (akrotiriázo)

  Ancient: ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō)

• Italian: amputare (it)
• Japanese: 切断する (ja) (せつだんする, setsudan suru)
• Korean: 절단하다 (ko) (jeoldanhada)
• Macedonian: ампути́ра impf or pf (amputíra)
• Maori: pōuto
• Polish: amputować (pl) impf or pf
• Portuguese: amputar (pt)
• Romanian: amputa (ro)
• Russian: ампути́ровать (ru) impf or pf (amputírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic : ампути́рати impf or pf

  Roman: amputírati (sh) impf or pf

• Slovak: amputovať impf or pf
• Slovene: amputȋrati impf or pf
• Spanish: amputar (es)
• Swedish: amputera (sv)
• Tagalog: gapungin
• Turkish: ampüte etmek
• Ukrainian: ампутува́ти (uk) impf or pf (amputuváty)

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Adverb

amputate

1. present adverbial passive participle of amputi

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

amputate

1. inflection of amputare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

amputate f pl

1. feminine plural of amputato

Latin

Verb

amputāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of amputō

Spanish

Verb

amputate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of amputar combined with te