Where does “fissure” come from?
Fissure comes from Latin fissura, meaning a cleft or crack.
fissure (English): A crack or opening, as in a rock; A groove, deep...
Definitions
- A crack or opening, as in a rock; A groove, deep...
Ancestry of “fissure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | fissure | — |
| 2 | Old French | fissure | — |
| 3 | Latin | fissura | fissure, cleft; nominative feminine singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | findō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | findō | split, cleave |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeyd- | to split |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰey- | bee |
Words derived from “fissure”