scissure

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin *scissura (“fissure”) (compare Italian scissura), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scissurus (“about to split”), from scindo (“I split”).

Noun

scissure (plural scissures)

1. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Noun

scissure f

1. plural of scissura

Anagrams

• scurisse

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) scissūre

1. vocative masculine singular of scissūrus