fissura

French

Verb

fissura

1. third-person singular past historic of fissurer

Anagrams

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Latin

Pronunciation

• fissūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fisˈsuː.ra/, [fɪs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• fissūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fisˈsu.ra/, [fisˈsuːrä]
• fissūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fisˈsuː.raː/, [fɪs̠ˈs̠uːräː]
• fissūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fisˈsu.ra/, [fisˈsuːrä]

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

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
  • → Middle English: fissure
    • English: 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

• IPA^(key): /fiˈsu.ɾɐ/

• 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