fissure

See also: fissuré

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French fissure, Latin fissura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃ.ə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/
• Homophone: fisher

Noun

fissure (plural fissures)

1. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
2. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.

Derived terms

• contrafissure
• counterfissure
• fissureless
• fissurelike
• fissure needle
• fissure vein
• fissurotomy
• laryngofissure
• microfissure
• palpebral fissure
• Rolandic fissure
• sylvian fissure
• unfissured

 

Translations

a crack or opening, as in a rock

• Armenian: ճաք (hy) (čakʻ)
• Bulgarian: цепнатина (bg) f (cepnatina), пукнатина (bg) f (puknatina)
• Catalan: fissura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裂縫／裂缝 (zh) (lièfèng), 裂缝 (zh) (lièfèng)

• Danish: revne c, sprække c
• Dutch: spleet (nl)
• Finnish: halkeama (fi)
• French: fissure (fr) f
• Galician: laño m, laña f, fisura f
• German: Riss (de) m

  Alemannic German: Chlack m

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• Indonesian: keretakan (id)
• Japanese: 裂け目 (さけめ, sakeme), 割れ目 (われめ, wareme)
• Latin: rīma f, fissura f
• Maori: piere
• Portuguese: fissura f
• Romanian: fisură (ro) f, crăpătură (ro) f
• Russian: тре́щина (ru) f (tréščina), расще́лина (ru) f (rasščélina)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: расцеп m

  Roman: rascep (sh) m

• Slovak: trhlina f, prasklina f, puklina f, škára f
• Spanish: grieta (es) f, fisura (es) f
• Swedish: rämna (sv), spricka (sv) c

Verb

1. To split, forming fissures.

Translations

to split forming fissures

• Finnish: rakoilla (fi), halkeilla (fi)
• German: rissig werden
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• Indonesian: meretakkan

Anagrams

• fussier, surfies

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French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin fissura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.syʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

fissure f (plural fissures)

1. fissure

Synonyms

• fente

Related terms

• fendre

See also

• ouverture

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
5. second-person singular imperative of fissurer

Further reading

• “fissure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) fissūre

1. vocative masculine singular of fissūrus

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Portuguese

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
3. first-person singular imperative of fissurar
4. third-person singular imperative of fissurar