scission
Meaninga splitting
Common meaning: a cutting or splitting
- scissto split apart, tearLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1642 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin scindō ‘to split apart, tear’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry scindō, p. 1642 · dictionary scan
Roots
- scindō, scidī, scissum Latin “to split apart, tear”
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