commissura

Italian

Noun

commissura f (plural commissure)

  1. (obsolete or sciences) alternative form of commessura

Derived terms

Further reading

  • commissura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From committō (“I join, connect”) +‎ -tūra with the regular change -tt- → -ss-.

Pronunciation

Noun

commissūra f (genitive commissūrae); first declension

  1. A joining or connecting together; a band, knot, joint, seam, juncture, commissure.
    commissura Piscium “the knot in the constellation Pisces”
  2. Connection in discourse.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative commissūra commissūrae
genitive commissūrae commissūrārum
dative commissūrae commissūrīs
accusative commissūram commissūrās
ablative commissūrā commissūrīs
vocative commissūra commissūrae

Descendants

  • → English: commissure

Participle

commissūra

  1. inflection of commissūrus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

commissūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of commissūrus

References

  • “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “commissura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "commissura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • commissura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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