cauter

From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.

cauter (plural cauters)

1. A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
   • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Compiled by Randle Cotgrave:

     The punctuall, or pointed cauter; is almost square, and altogether Sharpe pointed

• “cauter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• acture, acuter, curate

Borrowed from French cautère, from Latin cauterium.

cauter n (plural cautere)

1. cautery