Meaning of scissor | Babel Free
[ˈskɪs.sɔr]Definitions
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trancheur, somebody who in a banquet cuts the foodstuffs declension-3, masculine
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a kind of gladiator declension-3, masculine
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tailor Medieval-Latin, declension-3, masculine
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carver Medieval-Latin, declension-3, masculine
Equivalents
English
Tailor
Examples
“Processit statim scissor et ad symphoniam gesticulatus ita laceravit obsonium, ut putares essedarium hydraule cantante pugnare.”
The trancheur walked forward and signed in so concerted a manner while cutting the food that one believed that a chariot fought with a water-flute player.
“1ˢᵗ century BCE, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IX 466, which is a list of gladiators of the lanista Gaius Salvius Capito in Venusia Ret[iarius] C[aius] Clodius Scisso[r] M[arcus] Caecilius the net fighter Gaius Clodius”
The trancheur Marcus Caecilius
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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