amputation

See also: Amputation

English

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amputation

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amputation, borrowed from Latin amputātiō (“pruning (of a tree)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃən/, [ˌɛəmpjʊˈteɪʃən]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌæmpjʊˈtæɪʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɛmpjʊˈtæɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

amputation (countable and uncountable, plural amputations)

1. surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
2. the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

Derived terms

• Ewing amputation

Translations

surgical removal of a limb

Afrikaans: amputasie Arabic: بَتْر (ar) m (batr), قَطْع (ar) m (qaṭʕ) Armenian: անդամահատում (hy) (andamahatum), անդամահատություն (hy) (andamahatutʻyun) Belarusian: ампута́цыя f (amputácyja) Bulgarian: ампута́ция (bg) f (amputácija) Catalan: amputació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 截肢 (zh) (jiézhī), 切斷 / 切断 (zh) (qiēduàn) Czech: amputace (cs) f Dutch: amputatie (nl) f Esperanto: amputado Finnish: amputaatio (fi) French: amputation (fr) f Galician: amputación (gl) f Georgian: ამპუტაცია (amṗuṭacia) German: Amputation (de) f Greek: ακρωτηριασμός (el) m (akrotiriasmós) Ancient: ἀποκοπή f (apokopḗ) Haitian Creole: anpitasyon Hebrew: כריתה f (krita) Hungarian: amputálás (hu) Icelandic: aflimun f Indonesian: amputasi (id) Irish: teascadh Italian: amputazione (it) f Japanese: 切断 (ja) (せつだん, setsudan) Korean: 절단(切斷) (ko) (jeoldan) / 절단(截斷) (ko) (jeoldan) Macedonian: ампутација f (amputacija) Malayalam: അംഗച്ഛേദനം (aṅgacchēdanaṁ) Maori: poronga, pōutonga Navajo: atsʼáozʼaʼ kʼégéésh Ottoman Turkish: اجذام (iczâm) Polish: amputacja (pl) f Portuguese: amputação (pt) f Romanian: amputare (ro) f, amputație (ro) f Russian: ампута́ция (ru) f (amputácija) Sardinian: Gallurese Sardinian: mutzatura Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ампутација f Roman: amputacija (sh) f Slovak: amputácia (sk) f Slovene: amputacija f Spanish: amputación (es) f Swedish: amputation (sv) Tagalog: paggapong Turkish: ampütasyon (tr) Ukrainian: ампута́ція (uk) f (amputácija) Welsh: trychiad m West Frisian: amputaasje

loss of limb

Maori: poronga Portuguese: amputação (pt) f Tagalog: pagkagapong

See also

• acrotomophilia
• apotemnophilia
• apotemnophobia
• dismemberment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin amputātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: amputations

Noun

amputation f (plural amputations)

1. amputation

Related terms

• amputer

Descendants

• → Romanian: amputație
• → Turkish: ampütasyon

Further reading

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