cisorium
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Forms
cīsōrium n (genitive cīsōriī or cīsōrī); second declension[1]
Etymology
It is derived from caedō (“to cut”),[2][3][4] ultimately from its participial stem ⟨cīs-⟩ as seen in compounds such as incīdō2.[1]
Earliest recorded meaning
It is first recorded in Vegetius' treatise on veterinary medicine, of a cutting instrument used on bone,[2][3][4] although some editors read ⟨excisorium⟩ there.[1] A plural ⟨cisoria⟩ may also occur in Isidore of Seville, but only if the manuscripts' ⟨tisoria⟩ is emended.[1]
Semantic evolution
The word stayed rare.[2][3] In medieval French documents it named the iron cleaver with which butchers cut up meat: a letter of remission of 1353 tells of a man attacked with such cleavers taken from a butcher's stall.[5]
Timeline
- c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it of a surgical cutting tool.[2][3][4]
- 1353 – A French letter of remission uses it for butchers' cleavers.[5]
Meanings
Noun
Word family
- circumcisorium
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
- ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b c du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre