surgeon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A doctor who is trained to perform operations on patients.

   The surgeon explained the risks before the operation.

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Simplified etymology

Surgeon is a shortened form of Old French serurgian. That word derives through Latin chirurgia from Greek kheirourgia, “handiwork,” formed from kheir, “hand,” and ergon, “work,” reflecting the surgeon’s manual practice.

From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.

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