fissa
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Sranan Tongo fesa (“party, celebration”), from Portuguese festa, from Old Portuguese festa, from Vulgar Latin festa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪ.saː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fis‧sa
Noun
fissa c (plural fissa's, diminutive fissaatje n)
- (slang) party
French
Etymology
From Arabic فِي السَّاعَة (fī s-sāʿa, literally “in the hour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.sa/
Audio (file)
Adverb
fissa (slang)
- snappy (rapid and without delay)
- Il faut faire fissa. ― You've got to make it snappy.
Further reading
- “fissa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Lutz, Edzard (2011), “Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1029.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfis.sa/
- Rhymes: -issa
- Hyphenation: fìs‧sa
Etymology 1
From the feminine of fisso.
Noun
fissa f (plural fisse)
- obsession, fixation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
fissa
- feminine singular of fisso
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fissa
- inflection of fissare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- fissa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- fissa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- fissa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- fissa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- sfasi
Ladin
Verb
fissa
- third-person singular present indicative of fisser
- third-person plural present indicative of fisser
- second-person singular imperative of fisser
Latin
Participle
fissa
- inflection of fissus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
fissā
- ablative feminine singular of fissus