English
suture
Suture comes from Latin sūtūra, from suō ‘sew, join or tack together’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *sūō.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sūō‘to sew, stitch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuōas suere‘sew, join or tack together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūtūra
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500suture‘a suture’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sūō‘to sew, stitch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuōas suere‘sew, join or tack together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūtūra
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500suture‘a suture’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894same form
Earliest quotation: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain: “It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *syewH- ‘to sew’
sew, seam, hymen, sutra, sutta, 7 more
through Latin suō ‘sew, join or tack together’
Today it means
noun A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *sūō / suture