forceps
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːsɛps/, /ˈfɔːsəps/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoɹsɛps/
- (without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/
Noun
forceps (plural forceps or forcipes or forcepses)
- An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
Usage notes
Although the Latin word is singular, this word is often treated as a plurale tantum by analogy with names for similar items such as tongs and tweezers: this forceps or these forceps (or even pair of forceps).
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Pronunciation
Noun
forceps m (plural forceps)
Further reading
- “forceps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *formokaps through syncope. By surface analysis, formus (“warm”) + -ceps (“taker”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfor.keps/, [ˈfɔrkɛps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈfɔrt͡ʃeps]
Noun
forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | forceps | forcipēs |
Genitive | forcipis | forcipum |
Dative | forcipī | forcipibus |
Accusative | forcipem | forcipēs |
Ablative | forcipe | forcipibus |
Vocative | forceps | forcipēs |
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Descendants
References
- “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forceps in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- forceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “forceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “forceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
forceps n (plural forcepsuri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) forceps | forcepsul | (niște) forcepsuri | forcepsurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) forceps | forcepsului | (unor) forcepsuri | forcepsurilor |
vocative | forcepsule | forcepsurilor |
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