tijera

Meaning

scissors

Concepts

scissors

gossip

shears

scissor

pair of scissors

Hyphenated as

ti‧je‧ra

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tiˈxeɾa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tixera, tisera, from Latin (ferramenta) tōnsōria, from tōnsus. Compare Portuguese tesoura, Galician tesoiras, Asturian tixeres, tisories, Catalan tisores. The unexpected -i- in the Spanish, Asturian, and Catalan forms may perhaps be explained due to influence from synonymous but unrelated Old French cisoires, ciseaux