fissa

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo fesa (“party, celebration”), from Portuguese festa, from Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Vulgar Latin festa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪ.saː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fis‧sa

Noun

fissa c (plural fissa's, diminutive fissaatje n)

1. (slang) party

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French

Etymology

From Arabic فِي السَّاعَة (fī al-ssāʕa, literally “in the hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.sa/

Adverb

fissa (slang)

1. snappy (rapid and without delay)

   Il faut faire fissa

   You've got to make it snappy.

Further reading

• “fissa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Lutz, Edzard (2011) “Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1029.

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Italian

Noun

fissa f (plural fisse)

1. obsession

Adjective

fissa

1. feminine singular of fisso

Verb

fissa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fissare
2. second-person singular imperative of fissare

Anagrams

• sfasi

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Ladin

Verb

fissa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fisser
2. third-person plural present indicative of fisser
3. second-person singular imperative of fisser

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) fissa

1. nominative feminine singular of fissus
2. nominative neuter plural of fissus
3. accusative neuter plural of fissus
4. vocative feminine singular of fissus
5. vocative neuter plural of fissus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) fissā

1. ablative feminine singular of fissus