Where does “videolaparoscopy” come from?

videolaparoscopy (English) comes from English laparoscopy, from English scopy, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢.

videolaparoscopy (English): laparoscopy with video recording capability

Definitions

  1. laparoscopy with video recording capability

Ancestry of “videolaparoscopy”, step by step

videolaparoscopy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English laparoscopy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlaparoscopyExamination of the loins or abdomen, now...
2EnglishscopyAlternative form of scopey
3EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
4EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
5Japanese百合lily
6Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
7Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
8Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
9Old Japanesea dream
10Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
11Middle Chinese

via English video

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvideoTelevision, television show, movie; A short film...
2Latinvideōto see, perceive; look (at)
3Proto-Italicwidēōsee
4Proto-Indo-Europeanweyd-to see
Every word from Middle Chinese
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