fissura

French

Verb

fissura

1. third-person singular past historic of fissurer

Anagrams

• surfais

Latin

Pronunciation

• fissūra:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪsˈsuː.ra]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fisˈsuː.ra]
• fissūrā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪsˈsuː.raː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fisˈsuː.ra]

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

Participle

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈsu.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈsu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈsu.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈsu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: fis‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti

Proto-Italic *findō

Latin findō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin fissūrabor.

Portuguese fissura

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

Further reading

• “fissura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fissura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026