Where does “videothoracoscopy” come from?
videothoracoscopy (English) comes from English thoracoscopy, 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.
videothoracoscopy (English): thoracoscopy with a video camera
Definitions
- thoracoscopy with a video camera
Ancestry of “videothoracoscopy”, step by step
videothoracoscopy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English thoracoscopy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | thoracoscopy | A procedure for examining the inside of the chest... |
| 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 | — |