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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sranan Tongo fesa (party, celebration), from Portuguese festa, from Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Vulgar Latin festa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɪ.saː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: fis‧sa

Noun

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fissa c (plural fissa's, diminutive fissaatje n)

  1. (slang) party

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic فِي السَّاعَة (fī al-ssāʕa, literally in the hour).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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fissa (slang)

  1. snappy (rapid and without delay)
    Il faut faire fissa.You've got to make it snappy.

Further reading

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  • fissa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • Lutz, Edzard (2011) “Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1029.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfis.sa/
  • Rhymes: -issa
  • Hyphenation: fìs‧sa

Etymology 1

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From the feminine of fisso.

Noun

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fissa f (plural fisse)

  1. obsession, fixation

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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fissa

  1. feminine singular of fisso

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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fissa

  1. inflection of fissare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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  • fissa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • fissa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • fissa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • fissa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Ladin

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Verb

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fissa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of fisser
  2. third-person plural present indicative of fisser
  3. second-person singular imperative of fisser

Latin

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Participle

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fissa

  1. inflection of fissus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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fissā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fissus