forceps

 

Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːsɛps/, /ˈfɔːsəps/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹsɛps/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/

forceps (plural forceps or forcipes or forcepses)

1. An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.

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).

• pair of forceps

• serrefine

•   forceps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.sɛps/

forceps m (plural forceps)

1. (medicine) forceps

• “forceps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Italic *formokaps through syncope. By surface analysis, formus (“warm”) +‎ -ceps (“taker”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.keps/, [ˈfɔrkɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈfɔrt͡ʃeps]

forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension

1. (pair of) tongs, pincers, forceps

Third-declension noun.

• forcipātus

• “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

Borrowed from French forceps.

forceps n (plural forcepsuri)

1. forceps