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

  1. A crack or opening, as in a rock; A groove, deep...

Ancestry of “fissure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishfissurefissure, rupture
2Old Frenchfissure—
3Latinfissurafissure, cleft; nominative feminine singular of...
4Latinfindōto cleave, break up, separate, divide, split, part
5Proto-Italicfindōsplit, cleave
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeyd-to split
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰey-bee

Words derived from “fissure”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd- →Every word from Proto-Italic findō →