ciseau
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French cisel, chisel, from Vulgar Latin *cisellum < *caesellum, from Latin caesus, from caedō. Compare Occitan cisèl, Catalan cisell, Italian cesello, Portuguese cinzel, Spanish cincel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ciseau m (plural ciseaux)
- chisel
- sculpture
- (colloquial) scissors
- Synonym: ciseaux
- scissor kick
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ciseau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French colloquialisms
- fr:Tools