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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the neuter of fissus (“cleft, cloven, split, divided”), the perfect passive participle of findō (“to cleave, split, divide”).
Noun
fissum n (genitive fissī); second declension
- a cleft, slit, fissure; (especially anatomy) the cleft of the liver
45 BCE,
Cicero,
De divinatione 1.52.118:
- Nam non placet Stoicis singulis iecorum fissis aut avium cantibus interesse deum
- One must say it does not become stoics thinking gods meddle with each and every crack of their own liver or else with the singing of birds
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
fissum
- inflection of fissus:
- accusative masculine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
References
- “findo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fissum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fissum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.