operacioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō.

    Noun

    operacioun (plural operaciouns)

    1. operation
      • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
        Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • John Gower, Confessio Amantis 7.997-7.1000:
        And of this constellacioun The verray operacioun Availeth, if a man therinne The pourpos of his werk beginne.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Descendants

    • English: operation (see there for further descendants)

    References

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