fleam

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.

Έννοιες

φλεβοτόμος

Συνώνυμα

Μεταφράσεις

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/fliːm/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

From Middle English fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”). Doublet of phlebotome.

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