tisores

Catalan

tisores

Alternative forms

• estisores, tisora

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan tesores, tosores, from Latin (forfices) tonsōrĭas, from tonsus. Compare Spanish tijera, Portuguese tesoura, Galician tesoiras, Asturian tixeres, tisories. The -i-, also found in Spanish and Asturian, may be explained due to gradual influence from Old French cisoires, ciseaux (cf. Catalan cisalla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [tiˈzu.ɾəs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [tiˈzo.ɾəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [tiˈzo.ɾes]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

tisores f pl (plural only)

1. scissors

Related terms

• tondre

Further reading

• “tisores”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tisores” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tisores”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• tisores on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca