cincel

Meaning

chisel, cold chisel

Concepts

chisel

graver

burin

chiseling tool

scissors

✂️

stone

🪨

Synonyms

escoplo

formón

buril

cortafrío

tijeras

trépano

Translations

ciseau

Meißel

beitel

scalpello

cinzel

cisell

cesello

Stemmeisen

burin

entalhador

Beitel

Meissel

scalprum

gradina

Hyphenated as

cin‧cel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θinˈθel/

Etymology

Likely from Old French cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting instrument”), ultimately from Latin caedere (“cut”). The /n/ seems to have been taken from pincel (“paintbrush”).