surgeon

Significado (Inglés)

  1. One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
  2. A surgeonfish.

Frecuencia

B2
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

In summary

From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.

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