fissura

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French

Verb

fissura

  1. third-person singular past historic of fissurer

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) +‎ -tūra (nominal suffix).

Noun

fissūra f (genitive fissūrae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) a cleft, chink; a fissure
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Inflection

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fissūra fissūrae
genitive fissūrae fissūrārum
dative fissūrae fissūrīs
accusative fissūram fissūrās
ablative fissūrā fissūrīs
vocative fissūra fissūrae
Descendants
  • → Old French: fissure
  • Portuguese: fissura
  • Spanish: fisura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

fissūra

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

fissūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fissūrus

References

  • “fissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fissura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: fis‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fissūra.

Noun

fissura f (plural fissuras)

  1. fissure

Etymology 2

Verb

fissura

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