英语词汇trephine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	trephine
词源	trephine n. an improved kind of trepan, 1620s, from French trephine, which is said to be from Latin tres fines "three ends," but perhaps rather an arbitrary diminutive of trepan. As a verb from 1804. Related: Trephining; trephination. Entries linking to trephine trepan v. c. 1400, from Old French trépaner (14c.), from trepan (n.), the name of the tool with which it was done, from Medieval Latin trepanum "a saw for cutting out small pieces of bone from the skull," from Greek trypanon "a borer, an auger, a carpenter's tool; a surgeon's trepan," from trypan "to bore," related to trype "hole" (cognate with Old Church Slavonic truplu "hollow"), from PIE trup-, from root tere- (1) "to rub, turn." Related: Trepanned; trepanning. updated on February 16, 2014
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trephine n.