tijera

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tixera, tisera, from Latin (ferramenta) tōnsōria, from tōnsus. [1] Compare Portuguese tesoura, Galician tesoiras, Asturian tixeres, tisories, Catalan tisores. The unexpected -i- in the Spanish, Asturian, and Catalan forms may perhaps be explained due to influence from synonymous but unrelated Old French cisoires, ciseaux[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiˈxeɾa/ [t̪iˈxe.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Syllabification: ti‧je‧ra

Noun

tijera f (plural tijeras)

  1. (often in the plural) scissors

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Muller, Taylor, A Chrestomathy of Vulgar Latin
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tijera”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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