Translation
scar
Word origin
From Latin cicatrix, 'scar', a word with no agreed ancestry beyond Latin itself. It reached the sciences intact, which is why an English surgeon still writes cicatrix and a healing wound cicatrises.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cicatrix
- English cognates
- cicatrix, cicatrise
Examples
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He has a long scar on his arm.
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The operation left a small scar under the eye.
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I got that scar ten years ago.
Look for a seam here and you will invent one. There is no cik- root and no -atr- suffix: - is a single indivisible piece, borrowed whole. The suffix that does show up is the ordinary -- for a small one, o.
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