Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent surface) and clump up into small droplets, or form craters.
Perhaps ultimately derived in some way from Vulgar Latin *cisellum (from *caesellum, from caedō), whence e.g. French cission, ciseau and other words with senses related to cutting and separating, or perhaps from the same root as scission (“division, separating”) (Latin scissus, scindō), or even a conflation of the two as in scissor, whence sciss (“cut with scissors”).
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "m+",
"args": {
"1": "la-vul",
"2": "*cisellum"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *cisellum"
},
{
"name": "m+",
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "cission"
},
"expansion": "French cission"
},
{
"name": "m+",
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "scissus"
},
"expansion": "Latin scissus"
}
],
"links": [
[
"*cisellum",
"Reconstruction:Latin/cisellum"
],
[
"caedō",
"caedo#Latin"
],
[
"cission",
"cission#French"
],
[
"ciseau",
"ciseau#French"
],
[
"scission",
"scission#English"
],
[
"scissus",
"scissus#Latin"
],
[
"scindō",
"scindo#Latin"
],
[
"scissor",
"scissor#English"
],
[
"sciss",
"sciss#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent surface) and clump up into small droplets, or form craters."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "3c595570abc3129ccbbd2955e9e6897e0848750e1885742d5218f154d3cd9554",
"rawRecordSha256": "c668ca2b7e4d808cfc237ef9e222dea7d1fd47dd95e2424627a6e49bce8367a8",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 1348368
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}