toise

See also: toisé

English

Etymology

From French toise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔɪz/

Noun

toise (plural toises)

1. (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     […] the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely […]

Anagrams

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tēnsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tendō (“stretch”).

Noun

toise f (plural toises)

1. toise
2. height gauge

Derived terms

• toiser

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

toise

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

Anagrams

• ostie

Further reading

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

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Irish

Alternative forms

• tois

Etymology

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Noun

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

1. Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
2. size, measure, measurement
3. dimension

Declension

Declension of toise

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative toise toisí Vocative a thoise a thoisí Genitive toise toisí Dative toise toisí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an toise na toisí Genitive na toise na dtoisí Dative leis an toise don toise leis na toisí

Derived terms

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
toise	thoise	dtoise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “toise”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “toise”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024