Etymograph

English

fistuloenterostomy

Fistuloenterostomy comes from Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010fistuloenterostomy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010fistuloenterostomy

Earliest quotation: 2010, Johnson, Laparoscopic Treatment of a Pancreaticocutaneous Fistula: “Traditionally, they have been surgically treated with either partial…”

Formed from fistulo- ‘fistula’ + entero- ‘intestine’ + -stomy ‘mouth, surgical connection’

Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’

English fistulo-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ‘inside, within’

Ancient Greek ἔντερον ‘intestine’

English entero-

Linked words

through Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’

fester, 5 more

Today it means

noun An operation to create a surgical connection between a fistula and the intestine.

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