fissa

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo fesa (“party, celebration”), from Portuguese festa, from Old Galician-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)

1. (slang) party

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِي السَّاعَة (fī al-ssāʕa, literally “in the hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.sa/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Adverb

fissa (slang)

1. 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)

1. obsession, fixation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

fissa

1. feminine singular of fisso

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fissa

1. inflection of fissare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. 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

1. third-person singular present indicative of fisser
2. third-person plural present indicative of fisser
3. second-person singular imperative of fisser

Latin

Participle

fissa

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

Participle

fissā

1. ablative feminine singular of fissus

Sicilian

Etymology

Latin fissam, feminine participle of findere. Compare Neapolitan fessa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfissa/

Noun

fissa f (plural fissi)

1. vulva