toise
See also: toisé
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
toise (plural toises)
- (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
French
Pronunciation
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)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
toise
- first-person singular present indicative of toiser
- third-person singular present indicative of toiser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
- second-person singular imperative of toiser
Anagrams
Further reading
- “toise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Noun
toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)
- Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
- size, measure, measurement
- dimension
Declension
Declension of toise
Derived terms
- aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
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