sizar

• sizer

An alteration of sizer, from size (“fixed portion”) + -er.

sizar (plural sizars)

1. (British) An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.

   Coordinate terms: batteler, pensioner, servitor

• sizar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bursar
• scholarship

• “sizar” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Borrowed from English seize and French saisir.

• IPA^(key): /siˈzar/

sizar (present tense sizas, past tense sizis, future tense sizos, imperative sizez, conditional sizus)

1. (transitive) to seize, gripe, catch or lay hold of
2. (transitive) to distrain (property)
3. (transitive, figuratively) to take, grasp quickly, apprehend (arrest)

From Proto-Finnic *sësar, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swésō.

sizar

1. sister

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “сестра”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika