acupunctura

Latin

Alternative forms

• acuum pūnctūra

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.

Latin acus

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.

Proto-Italic *pungō

Latin pungō

Latin pūnctus

Latin -tura

Latin pūnctūra

Latin acupunctura

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

Pronunciation

• acūpūnctūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.kuː.puːnkˈtuː.ra/, [äkuːpuːŋkˈt̪uːrä]
• acūpūnctūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ku.punkˈtu.ra/, [äkupuŋkˈt̪uːrä]
• acūpūnctūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.kuː.puːnkˈtuː.raː/, [äkuːpuːŋkˈt̪uːräː]
• acūpūnctūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ku.punkˈtu.ra/, [äkupuŋkˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

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.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	acupūnctūra	acupūnctūrae
genitive	acupūnctūrae	acupūnctūrārum
dative	acupūnctūrae	acupūnctūrīs
accusative	acupūnctūram	acupūnctūrās
ablative	acupūnctūrā	acupūnctūrīs
vocative	acupūnctūra	acupūnctūrae

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Noun

acupunctura f (plural acupuncturas)

1. Alternative spelling of acupuntura