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
- laparoscopy with video recording capability
Ancestry of “videolaparoscopy”, step by step
videolaparoscopy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English laparoscopy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | laparoscopy | Examination of the loins or abdomen, now... |
| 2 | English | scopy | Alternative form of scopey |
| 3 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 4 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 6 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 7 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 8 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 9 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 10 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 11 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |