Scalpel

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mid 18th century: from French, or from Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalprum ‘chisel’, from scalpere ‘to scratch’.

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Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum(“knife”), from scalpere(“to cut”). Displaced native Old English lǣċeseax(literally “doctor knife”).

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scalpel (n.)

1742, from Latin scalpellum "a surgical knife," diminutive of scalprum "knife, chisel, tool for scraping or cutting," from scalpere "to carve, cut," related to sculpere "to carve," from PIE root *skel- (1) "to cut."