Where does “tonsillectomia” come from?
tonsillectomia (Italian) comes from Italian tonsille, from Italian tonsilla, from Latin tonsillae, from Proto-Italic *tonslilā, from Proto-Italic tonslis, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
tonsillectomia (Italian): tonsillectomy
Ancestry of “tonsillectomia”, step by step