- trephine (n.)
[trephine 词源字典]
- an improved kind of trepan, 1620s, from French trephine, which is said to be from Latin tres fines "three ends," but perhaps rather an arbitrary diminutive of trepan. As a verb from 1804. Related: Trephining; trephination.[trephine etymology, trephine origin, 英语词源]