scissure

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English

Etymology

Late Latin *scissura (fissure) (compare Italian scissura), from Latin scissurus (about to split), from scindo (I split).

Pronunciation

Noun

scissure (plural scissures)

  1. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
    • a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
      the soul is without any further act of violence forced out of its place , that it takes its flight home to heaven , being thus let out at the scissure, as at the window ; and only the two fragments of carcase remain behind

References

scissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

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Noun

scissure f (plural scissures)

  1. scissure

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Italian

Noun

scissure f

  1. plural of scissura

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

scissūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of scissūrus