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. (entomology) A pair of appendages on the abdomen of some insects, such as earwigs, resembling the medical instrument. ==== 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). ==== Synonyms ==== pair of forceps ==== Hyponyms ==== serrefine ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === forceps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin forceps. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɔʁ.sɛps/ === Noun === forceps m (invariable) (medicine) 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): [ˈfɔr.kɛps] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔr.t͡ʃeps] === Noun === forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension (pair of) tongs, pincers, forceps ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== forcipātus ==== 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, 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 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 108 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French forceps. === Noun === forceps n (plural forcepsuri) forceps ==== Declension ====