Noun: bisturi
Gender: m
Hyphenation: bì‧stu‧ri
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bisturi
sfottò,
pentafluoruro di arsenico,
strasserismo,
sbrinz,
scolapiatti,
sbatti,
server,
setter,
seitan,
iceberg,
savere,
satana,
safari,
salumi,
saloon,
salmoè,
scuter,
scerpa,
sciarm,
scotch, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French bistouri, in turn from archaic Italian pistorese or pistorino (“from Pistoia”, see Latin Pistōrium); the city of Pistoia was once famous for the manufacturing of blades. Doublet of pistoiese. See: French Nouns '
bistouri', Italian Nouns '
pistorese', Latin Nouns '
Pistōrium'.
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