fissus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of findō. Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *bʰidtós.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfis.sus/, [ˈfɪs̠ːʊs̠]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfis.sus/, [ˈfisːus]

Participle

fissus (feminine fissa, neuter fissum); first/second-declension participle

1. split, cloven

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fissus	fissa	fissum		fissī	fissae	fissa
Genitive	fissī	fissae	fissī		fissōrum	fissārum	fissōrum
Dative	fissō		fissō		fissīs
Accusative	fissum	fissam	fissum		fissōs	fissās	fissa
Ablative	fissō	fissā	fissō		fissīs
Vocative	fisse	fissa	fissum		fissī	fissae	fissa

Derived terms

• fissiparus (New Latin)
• fissiō
• fissura

Descendants

• Catalan: fes
• French: fesse
• Galician: feso
• Italian: fesso
• Spanish: fiso

References

• “fissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fissus 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)
• fissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.