chirurgicochirurgica

Chirurgicochirurgica is a coined, nonstandard string formed by concatenating the masculine Italian adjective chirurgico and its feminine form chirurgica, both meaning “surgical.” The term is not attested in standard dictionaries and is not used as an established lexical item in Italian. When it appears, it is usually as an example in linguistic discussion or as a branding or stylistic device, not as normal language.

Chirurgico derives from chirurgia (surgery) with the masculine suffix -ico; chirurgica uses the feminine suffix -ica. In ordinary Italian, adjectives agree in gender with the noun: un oggetto chirurgico, una procedura chirurgica, i dispositivi chirurgici, le procedure chirurgiche. The combined form chirugicochirurgica may be used to illustrate gender agreement, to signal inclusivity of both masculine and feminine forms, or as a playful or promotional coinage. In formal writing, it is better to avoid such concatenations and rather present either one form that matches the noun or explicit both forms separated by conjunctions or punctuation (chirurgico e chirurgica, or chirurghi e chirurgiche in plural).

In linguistic discussions, the term is sometimes mentioned alongside topics such as Italian gender agreement and linguistic reduplication, but it remains a nonstandard construction without wide acceptance in language reference sources. It serves primarily as a curiosity or a teaching example rather than as a conventional term.