surgerie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• surgerye, surgery, sorgerye
• (non-remodelled) ciurgie, siurgie, surgye

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French surgerie; a modification of surgie, from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of cirurgie. Almost all forms have been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsurdʒɛriː(ə)/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /ˈsurdʒiː(ə)/

Noun

surgerie (uncountable)

1. surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)

Descendants

• English: surgery

References

• “cirurǧīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.