different between fissure vs gyrus

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)

1. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. fissure

Synonyms

• fente

Related terms

• fendre

See also

• ouverture

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
5. 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

1. vocative masculine singular of fiss?rus

Portuguese

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
3. first-person singular imperative of fissurar
4. third-person singular imperative of fissurar

English

Etymology

From Latin g?rus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gûros). Doublet of gyro and gyre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a???s/

Noun

gyrus (plural gyri or gyruses)

1. (anatomy) A fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain.

   Synonym: (archaic) gyre

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• sulcus

Anagrams

• surgy

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (gûros)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??y?.rus/, [??y???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??i.rus/, [?d??i??us]

Noun

g?rus m (genitive g?r?); second declension

1. circle
2. a circular motion
3. a circuit, course, ring
4. (by extension) place where horses are trained

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• g?r?

Related terms

• g?r?tus

Descendants

References

• gyrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gyrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gyrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette