toise
See also: toisé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
toise (plural toises)
- (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- […] the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely […]
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin tēnsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tendō (“stretch”).
NounEdit
toise f (plural toises)
- (historical) toise (former French unit of length)
- height gauge
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
toise
- inflection of toiser:
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “toise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)
- Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
- size, measure, measurement
- dimension
DeclensionEdit
Declension of toise
Derived termsEdit
- aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
toise | thoise | dtoise |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- "toise" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “toise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “toise” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.