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Italian
Noun
commissura f (plural commissure)
- (obsolete or sciences) Alternative form of commessura
Derived terms
Further reading
- commissura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From committō (“I join, connect”) + -tūra with the regular change -tt- → -ss-.
Pronunciation
Noun
commissūra f (genitive commissūrae); first declension
- A joining or connecting together; a band, knot, joint, seam, juncture, commissure.
- commissura Piscium “the knot in the constellation Pisces”
- Connection in discourse.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
commissūra
- inflection of commissūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
commissūrā
- ablative feminine singular of commissūrus
References
- “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commissura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- commissura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.