fissure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long, narrow crack or split, especially in rock or the ground.

   Lava poured out of a deep fissure in the volcano's side.

2. 2
   noun

   A serious disagreement or division between people or groups.

   The debate exposed a growing fissure within the party.

3. 3
   verb

   To break or split into cracks.

   The dried earth had fissured into a pattern of deep cracks.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti Proto-Italic *findō Latin findō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin fissūrader. Old French fissurebor. Middle English fissure English fissure From Middle English fissure, from Old French fissure, from Latin fissūra (“a cleft, chink”), from findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) + -tūra (nominal suffix).

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