ventouse
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English
Etymology
Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.
Noun
ventouse (plural ventouses)
- (obsolete) A cupping glass.
- 1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals , London: Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022:
- [I]t commeth at length to fall upon the fleſh which the ventoſe ſticketh faſt unto, and by heating and inchafing, it expreſſeth the humor that is within, into the ventoſe or cupping veſſel.
- (medicine) A suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.
Alternative forms
Verb
ventouse (third-person singular simple present ventouses, present participle ventousing, simple past and past participle ventoused)
- (obsolete) To cup; to use a cupping glass.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French ventouse, from Old French ventuse, ellipsis of Medieval Latin ventōsa. Doublet of venteux and ventôse.
Pronunciation
Noun
ventouse f (plural ventouses)
- plunger
- suction cup
- cupping glass
- ventouse
- (biology) sucker
- (slang) sucker (a person who sucks; a general term of disparagement)
Verb
ventouse
- inflection of ventouser:
Further reading
- “ventouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.