cathéter

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καθετήρ (kathetḗr, “surgical instrument for emptying the bladder”), from καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to descend, let down”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, “suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs”) (from Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr (“suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone or something whose role or purpose it is to perform the verb's action”)).

• IPA^(key): /ka.te.tɛʁ/
• Homophone: cathéters

cathéter m (plural cathéters)

1. catheter

• “cathéter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tacheter