commissura

Italian

Noun

commissura f (plural commissure)

1. (obsolete or sciences) Alternative form of commessura

Derived terms

• commissurale
• commissurotomia

Further reading

• commissura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From committō (“I join, connect”) +‎ -tūra with the regular change -tt- → -ss-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom.misˈsuː.ra/, [kɔmːɪs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.misˈsu.ra/, [komːisˈsuːrä]

Noun

commissūra f (genitive commissūrae); first declension

1. A joining or connecting together; a band, knot, joint, seam, juncture, commissure.

   commissura Piscium “the knot in the constellation Pisces”

2. Connection in discourse.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	commissūra	commissūrae
Genitive	commissūrae	commissūrārum
Dative	commissūrae	commissūrīs
Accusative	commissūram	commissūrās
Ablative	commissūrā	commissūrīs
Vocative	commissūra	commissūrae

Descendants

• → English: commissure

Participle

commissūra

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

Participle

commissūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of commissūrus

References

• “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commissura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• commissura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.