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fissure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fissure, Latin fissura.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??.?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f??.?/, /?f??.?/
- Homophone: fisher
Noun
fissure (plural fissures)
- A crack or opening, as in a rock.
- (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)
- To split, forming fissures.
Translations
References
- “fissure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- fussier, surfies
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin fissura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.sy?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
fissure f (plural fissures)
- fissure
Synonyms
- fente
Related terms
- fendre
See also
- ouverture
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- second-person singular imperative of fissurer
Further reading
- “fissure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
fiss?re
- vocative masculine singular of fiss?rus
Portuguese
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- first-person singular imperative of fissurar
- third-person singular imperative of fissurar
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cranny
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?æni/
- Rhymes: -æni
Etymology 1
From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin cren? (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crin? (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.
Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin cr?na is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).
Noun
cranny (plural crannies)
- A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- He peeped into every cranny.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Related terms
- any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny
Translations
Verb
cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)
- (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
Etymology 2
Perhaps for cranky.
Adjective
cranny (comparative more cranny, superlative most cranny)
- (Britain, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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