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forceps (n.)
1560s, from Latin
forceps
"pair of tongs, pincers," compound of
formus
"hot" (see
warm
(adj.)) + root of
capere
"to hold, take" (see
capable
). Originally a smith's implement. The classical plural is
forcipes
.
