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plastic forceps

Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.

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).

instrument used in surgery

Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.

forceps m (plural forceps)

  1. (medicine) forceps

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

forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension

  1. (pair of) tongs, pincers, forceps

Third-declension noun.

  • “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