syringe

From Middle French syringe (“syringe”), from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx (“reed, panpipe”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Doublet of syrinx.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ
• Hyphenation: sy‧ringe

syringe (plural syringes)

1. A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.
   • 2013 January 2, Lisa Selin Davis, “Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms?”, in Time‎^[1]:

     In Kelly’s case, once the baby was admitted to the hospital, she began to use formula, fed through a syringe—she was told to avoid bottles because the baby would reject the breast.

2. A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

• Syringe mostly refers specifically to medical devices for injecting drugs into a human body or drawing blood from one (or other human fluids), but the broader definition sees occasional use, particularly in specialized fields.

syringe (third-person singular simple present syringes, present participle syringing, simple past and past participle syringed)

1. (transitive) To clean or rinse by means of a syringe.

   Have your ears syringed! They're so dirty!

2. (transitive) To inject by means of a syringe.

• Category:syringes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Rigneys, Yingers, reysing

• syrinx

Inherited from Middle French syringe, from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx).

Cognate with Italian siringe, Portuguese siringe, Spanish siringe.

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁɛ̃ʒ/

syringe f (plural syringes)

1. syrinx

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “syringe”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “syringe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syːˈrɪŋ.ɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈrin̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]
• Homophone: Sȳringe

sȳringe f

1. ablative singular of sȳrinx

From Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx).

Cognate with Italian siringe, Portuguese siringe, Spanish siringe.

syringe f (plural syringes)

1. syringe

   Synonym: seringue

   • 1607, Dictionnaire François-Allemand & Allemand-François, page 380:

     Struͤtze […]. Vne ſyringe. / Struͤtzen […]. Ietter quelque choſe liquide d’une ſyringe.

     Struͤtze […]. A syringe. / Struͤtzen […]. To throw some liquid thing from a syringe.

• → English: syringe
• French: syringe

sȳringe

1. inflection of sȳring:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural