köken: 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.
stinger (a pointed portion of an insect) · scalpel (a small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery) · lancet (a sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument)
köken: Etymology tree Latin scalpō Latin -rum Latin scalprum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin scalpellum From scalprum + -lum (diminutive suffix).
scalpel (knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery)
köken: Etymology tree Latin scalpō Latin -rum Latin scalprum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin scalpellumbor. Slovak skalpel Borrowed from Latin scalpellum.
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نیشتر (nişter), from Classical Persian نیشتر (ništar), with the spelling influenced by Ancient Greek νύσσω (nússō, “to stab, pierce”).