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Latin
Etymology
From scindō (“I cut, cleave, divide”) (supine scissum) + -tiō (“-tion”, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
scissiō f (genitive scissiōnis); third declension
- A cleaving, dividing, scission (of a number).
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “scissio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scissio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- scissio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016