scissure
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Etymology edit
Late Latin *scissura (“fissure”) (compare Italian scissura), from Latin scissurus (“about to split”), from scindo (“I split”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scissure (plural scissures)
- A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
- a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
- the soul is without any further act of violence forced out of its place , that it takes its flight home to heaven , being thus let out at the scissure, as at the window ; and only the two fragments of carcase remain behind
References edit
“scissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
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Noun edit
scissure f (plural scissures)
Further reading edit
- “scissure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
scissure f
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Participle edit
scissūre