autopsia

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See also: autópsia and autòpsia

English

Noun

autopsia

  1. Archaic form of autopsy.
    • 1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:
      A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

autopsia

  1. third-person singular past historic of autopsier

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτοψία (autopsía, seeing with one's own eyes), derived from αὐτός (autós, self) +‎ ὄψις (ópsis, sight).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aw.toˈpsi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: au‧to‧psì‧a

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsie)

  1. autopsy, post-mortem

Further reading

  • autopsia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: au‧top‧si‧a

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

  1. (rare, prescriptive) Alternative form of autópsia (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Etymology 2

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of autópsia.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French autopsier.

Verb

a autopsia (third-person singular present autopsiează, past participle autopsiat) 1st conjugation

  1. to autopsy

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψία (autopsía, visual exam).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

autopsia f (plural autopsias)

  1. autopsy

References

  1. ^ autopsia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Further reading